Alas, I was not clear, left out a word, resulting in tautology... On Dec 5, 2010, at 1:06 PM, howard posner wrote:
> That said, his gestures do seem to be part and parcel of his performing > style, which is full of big, impulsive gestures. I meant to say "big, impulsive musical gestures." i.e. the physical gestures are in keeping with the musical gestures, which are more dramatic (hysterical?), or Mannerist, than the instrument is known for. I sometimes get the impression that he plays a lot of music as if it's Gesualdo or Monteverdi's Mannerist madrigals, where every line of the poem has different music to mark the shift of mood. I find it jerky for Weiss (that is a Weiss prelude he plays at the beginning of the video of the sinfonia to Cantata BWV 156, no?) or the ultra-rational Bach, where the music has an overwhelming ordered logic. > Reminds me a bit of watching Jim Carrey in his more manic roles. In the lute > world, where gestures are normally small, I can see where it can inspire > great enthusiasm in some auditors, and great annoyance in others. I suppose > I'm somewhere in the middle, I suppose. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
