Word: performancee
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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TK: One reason is that they're great pieces. But you're right to think that other pieces could fit. There's no Mozart or Bach here. First, you have to pick a piece that you know enough about to make a plausible reconstruction of the first performance. For a...
TK: These pieces are icons, they're placed on a pedestal and worshiped like gods in most books. In this book, we stop studying once the first performance is over. There's a whole lot of scholarship on the later influence of these pieces, but all of those things are...
TK: Part of this comes from my interest in early music, finding out how music sounded when it was new. It's not because you're trying to tell everyone that they must play the piece as it was played at its premiere, but I think that music is most...
TK: I don't think that any of these pieces got their best performance at their premiere. And they've now been performed in many different ways. There are jazz versions of Handel's Messiah, there are Christian Rock versions also. Things become a masterpiece by subsequent people acknowledging them...
THC: It seems that a key concept of First Nights is "creation in performance." Can you explain that idea?