Oh so many feels about this one! It's sad, but also comforting to hear about how much negativity can come from the creative process. With music especially, it always has me wondering about what is "good" and who gets to decide "standards". I think a lot of what alienates people from orchestral music has to do with this: most audience members (including myself) don't hear or appreciate all the standards that people spend fortunes and tears chasing. "Perfect" doesn't always sound so great. If it did, how could liver performances stand a chance against recordings?
Not sure about the modern bassoon mending what the baroque bassoon broke, but that phrase definitely has broken my heart. How little people understand about historical performance yet! How arrogant and snobbish (unknowingly) they sound!
I could see the assumption that baroque music is easier to play, well, maybe for a beginner or someone who doesn't even know what baroque music is. But for a professional/ intermediate level, it takes so much more knowledge to understand the time period and style and actually apply that. Now you are a much higher level that I probably will ever be in my entire life 😂 but I don't really see that assumption of "early music" as a lesser study around the area I live in. I live in the Midwest U.S. and honestly, people don't even know what baroque music is. It's a very small community that does. I think the topics of study are so less known around here that if you are playing/ studying that area in music, it is considered higher. Now, I also play viola, and I've only encountered the assumption that baroque music is lesser when I talk to vocalists 😂😂😂 Anyways, I hardly believe that assumption and wish that scholarship would have given you a higher spot back then. There is so much more to be discovered and taught about this music, and I wish it was more well known.
Thanks for your perspective! I think I was simply unfortunate in that I lived in a city which went mainly untouched by the early music revival. Furthermore, as a Canadian, there really was only one conceivable path to professional life which was to get a job in an orchestra, so I can understand the attitudes I encountered…
Oh so many feels about this one! It's sad, but also comforting to hear about how much negativity can come from the creative process. With music especially, it always has me wondering about what is "good" and who gets to decide "standards". I think a lot of what alienates people from orchestral music has to do with this: most audience members (including myself) don't hear or appreciate all the standards that people spend fortunes and tears chasing. "Perfect" doesn't always sound so great. If it did, how could liver performances stand a chance against recordings?
Great point about “perfect”. It can also mean, “without character”…
This video should have more views! Great video!
Thanks!
Not sure about the modern bassoon mending what the baroque bassoon broke, but that phrase definitely has broken my heart. How little people understand about historical performance yet! How arrogant and snobbish (unknowingly) they sound!
It was an eye-rolling moment, for sure. But it came from someone with no experience of historical performance at the time… oh well!
I could see the assumption that baroque music is easier to play, well, maybe for a beginner or someone who doesn't even know what baroque music is. But for a professional/ intermediate level, it takes so much more knowledge to understand the time period and style and actually apply that. Now you are a much higher level that I probably will ever be in my entire life 😂 but I don't really see that assumption of "early music" as a lesser study around the area I live in. I live in the Midwest U.S. and honestly, people don't even know what baroque music is. It's a very small community that does. I think the topics of study are so less known around here that if you are playing/ studying that area in music, it is considered higher. Now, I also play viola, and I've only encountered the assumption that baroque music is lesser when I talk to vocalists 😂😂😂 Anyways, I hardly believe that assumption and wish that scholarship would have given you a higher spot back then. There is so much more to be discovered and taught about this music, and I wish it was more well known.
Thanks for your perspective! I think I was simply unfortunate in that I lived in a city which went mainly untouched by the early music revival. Furthermore, as a Canadian, there really was only one conceivable path to professional life which was to get a job in an orchestra, so I can understand the attitudes I encountered…