For the past year or so, I’ve been given so much conflicting advice from people I know, work with and respect. It hasn’t been about semiquavers or intonation (well, some of it has), but rather, about appearance. Clothes and appearance are of immense interest to me; not because I am naturally stylish or particularly opinionated about clothes (I’m neither) but because of the importance everybody else seems to place on it. For example: in the video/concert I did at the end of my residence at The Hospital Club, I wore a beautiful tweed suit from this crazy awesome tailor in … Continued
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Contemporary Performance Practice.
If you don’t know what performance practice is, I encourage you to Google it. I’ve had a slight issue with this term since just before I went to college. The assumption that developing what’s going on right now isn’t as credible or important as preserving a 300 year old tradition is, in my opinion, crazy. If for no other reason than job preservation, what will musicologists have to study in 2270?! I like to use the term contemporary performance practice to begin to explain what it is that I do. To my mind, this covers how we perform the music being … Continued