by minstrel on Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:53 pm
This is kind of silly to me. Even the finest musicians change their performances each time they play a piece. That's what "live performance" is all about. It might not be noticeable to most listeners in the classical realm, but in most other forms of music (rock, jazz, blues, etc.) improvisation is the essence of the music, and each performance is SUPPOSED to be a new creative experience. There is nothing saying that a given recording is the "definitive" performance, or the best performance, of a piece of music. While it's an interesting intellectual exercise to try to reproduce some old performance exactly, it certainly does not qualify as "the future of music". I think most musicians, and listeners, would laugh at that notion.
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