I do get a bit tired of people who look down their nose at anything that doesn't meet their exalted standards. It's worth noting that, to the extent that we are concerned about HIP, a lot of historical performance was in fact by amateurs of varying degrees of ability and training. If we want to be historically informed listeners, we need to be tolerant of performers that aren't quite up to the level of Paul or Nigel (or even within a light year or two). Even Paul and Nigel aren't quite up to that level if you compare live performance to a highly produced recording.
I think the real problem with YT is not so much one of quality as of expectations. I enjoy dinner with friends just as much (if not more) than I do dinner at Le Gourmand, although the quality of the food is vastly superior at Le Gourmand; I have a different set of expectations for the two. The real problem with YT isn't so much the highly variable quality but that it's hard to know what to expect unless you happen to know the performer. That's not to say that everything on YT is worth watching (far from it) but still... (FWIW, Le Gourmand is a real restaurant, one of Seattle's finest, but we keep it a secret since it has only a few tables). Guy -----Original Message----- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of David Smith Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 10:18 AM To: 'hera caius'; Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: Quality vs Quantity I have to admit as someone that was considering posting my poor attempts on youtube I find this a somewhat chilling set of observations. I have to admit that my motivations are purely selfish - looking for support in my feeble attempts to learn my instruments, showing off the instruments (certainly not my playing), and motivation to perfect something well enough to be willing to share it. I agree there is much on the web that is worthless and uninteresting. As a professional performance platform it is poor. As a community square where you can hear all kinds of music and their performance it is pretty nice (especially for us in a region of the world that is not full of live early music performance - Oregon can be somewhat of a wasteland). I am somewhat embarrassed that the performer of the "Expert" Baroque Lute went to University of Portland (at least according to his notes). Regards David -----Original Message----- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of hera caius Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 9:28 AM To: Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: Quality vs Quantity I have the impression that he is serious as many many people on the net showing their "skills"... --- On Sun, 3/25/12, mathias.roe...@t-online.de <mathias.roe...@t-online.de> wrote: From: mathias.roe...@t-online.de <mathias.roe...@t-online.de> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Quality vs Quantity To: Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Sunday, March 25, 2012, 7:23 PM > Example: > [1][1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFSbnTIRxqY > As I watch it several times...more and more it became > strange and I try to understand... > P.S.This is one of my favorites.... But, hey, he is making fun of it, isn't he? I take it to be comedy. Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFSbnTIRxqY 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
