Hear, Hear! ________________________________________ From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Christopher Wilke [chriswi...@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 10:23 AM To: Edward Mast; e...@gamutstrings.com; Roman Turovsky; Anthony Hind Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: Karamazov
I find that only people who think of themselves as serious musicians or music lovers have a problem with performers moving to the music. My advice to those bothered by what they perceive as someone "getting into it too much" would be either A) Don't look, just listen B) Accept it as an alternative style of performance that may not necessarily be your own preference or C) Travel back in time to the gallant era when such things mattered (just be sure to avoid Mozart, who once broke a shoe because he was stomping along so forcefully to the music). To me, the only way one's movements can really distract from my enjoyment of the music is if a performer is missing notes because they're flipping their lutes around their necks or something. No one owns this music, even less the way one chooses to look while playing it. Chris Christopher Wilke Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer www.christopherwilke.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
