Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!hoxna!houxm!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!unc!ericksen From: ericksen@unc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: live performances Message-ID: <234@unc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 15:01:15 EST Article-I.D.: unc.234 Posted: Thu Dec 20 15:01:15 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 00:43:12 EST Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 33 . With all the interest in 'what's the attraction of a live performance', i thought i'd put in my two cents worth. one cent: > So when a performance is given, even if a peformer takes > great liberties with the score ... That's one thing i go to a live performance for ... in that situation i EXPECT to hear a freer interpretation of the music than one hears on record. (By the same token, i expect a comfortable, conservative approach on a recording.) other cent: A major difference between music and, for instance, painting is the temporal element inherent in music. When music is 'frozen' on vinyl, that temporal element is some- what lost (after all, if i really want to, i can play the same three bars over and over for twenty minutes). With this in mind, live music is a much more present-time phenomenon than recorded music. I should point out that i am not disparaging recorded music; indeed i am one of those people who likes to hear music played without mistakes, with the advantages of recording studio acoustics and technology. I just wanted to point out some of the positive aspects of live music. I feel these comments are equally valid for either classical or rock music ... but since this discussion was in net.music.classical, that's where my article is directed. Jim Ericksen Dept of Comp Sci UNC Chapel Hill