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COMMENT(S): 10 Questions With . . . Dr. Jack Taylor
Published: January 01, 2008
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| Next time I will leave the dog at home. :)
There is an interesting parallel to the lonely Piobaireachd competition happening in many classical / orchestral concerts, that of a dwindling audience. Working out how to get people interested has been long discussed. |
Published: January 01, 2008
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| I attended the Maxville competition (Gold Medal on Friday and the Saturday too) which was great to hear people at the top of their piobaireachd game.
One thing that would make it more interesting from an audience point of view (probably the players too) would be some variation in the scores that the performers would feel free to experiment with. For the most part I did not notice any serious stylistic differences between the performers mostly technical. While “getting all the notes” is clearly important, it would be interesting to hear some of the various takes on the same pieces that have been published by the likes of David Glen, Angus MacKay, Robert Meldrum etc.
In the classical/orchestral world I am reminded of people that took serious departures from the “norm” for musical interpretation reasons. Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Jascha Heifetz, Leopold Stokowski to name a few.
Interesting enough, on Friday there were perhaps 20-30 people listening and on Saturday perhaps 6-10. Over on the light music side there was a big crowd at the special MSR gig. | |
