Mellotronists

Classical music is generally not written to be
performed by the composer - he gets an orchestra
to do that, who all dress like shop mannekins and
are trained so that they reliably reproduce somebody
else's dots on a page without colouring it with their own ideas.

This is completely different to the werld of popular music,
where we are as much interested in who the performer
is as to what they sound like - what they look like,
what their personality is.
At its best, pop music is about how to live your entire life,
it's about individuality and personality.
It absolutely makes a difference who is on that stage,
and how 'for real' they are.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jonesalley" <jonesalley@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 10:59 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: musical box


> By that logic, then you should also feel that there should be
no
> performances of the great classical music through history, or
the
> staging of spectacles like the Rites of Spring, Mozart's
operas, or
> countless other wonderful pieces.  The whole "cover band"
argument is
> specious.  Music has had a long tradition of performers with
the goal
> of striving to recreate a performance or a composition with
exactly
> the same nuance each time they play it.  Don't denigrate what
they do
> simply because they didn't write the music, just accept that it
is a
> different type of musical expression that is valid in its own
way. If
> they happen to suck at it, that's an entirely different
story...
>
> Jon E Salley
> M400 #886
>
> > Yeah -
> >  tribute bands are just giving us commodified museum exhibits
of
> past culture.
> >
> > If Genesis had done that in the first place,
> > where would we be?
> >
> > It doesn't matter have slavishly they try to imitate
> > the original in terms of musical and visual form -
> > what they can never imitate is the fact that the
> > original was, erm, original - 5 blokes in a band
> > striving to do something new and exciting.
>
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