On Jan 24, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Paul Kieffer wrote: > i have no problem, in this case, with the last chord at all. i > think that edin made this choice for his own artistic reasons that > are in his head. i think it would be disrespectul to dowland only > if edin made this choice to make the music more attractive to > modern audiences, because this would imply that it is not good > enough for 21st century listeners (edin was clearly not saying this)
It's a fair guess that it wasn't good enough for Karamazov, since he changed it, but apart from that I wouldn't opine about what his message might have been. > so, folks, i say that motives are very important when it comes to > interpretaion. people dont seem to get this, at least here. Perhaps people don't get it because it's impossible to get. How are we supposed to know what a performer's motives are? A recorded performance exists independent of the motives that produced it. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
