Topic: Fun on Classic... Or classic for fun...
part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n8_nnnS...re=related
part2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bKw3HBl...re=related
Making classic more enjoyable...
Last edited by Beto-Music (22-02-2011 01:33)
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Re: Fun on Classic... Or classic for fun...
Or less, depending on one's opinion on and attitude towards classical music.
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Re: Fun on Classic... Or classic for fun...
Perhaps...
But who already like classic will have the traditional form as always had.
The idea is to attract more people to apreciate classic, even than in a unusuaol way.
In a era of trash pushed by media, with techno and dance beats and remix... any effort to bring quality of some great classics is valid, as long as the traditional form it's still available for purists.
jmsuijkerbuijk wrote:
Or less, depending on one's opinion on and attitude towards classical music.
Last edited by Beto-Music (22-02-2011 16:58)
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My fear is that this approach merely reinforces the misconception that anything with a body of strings is 'classical'.
As in: the classical version of Metallica (Metallica songs played by a string quartet). These songs are still Metallica, albeit played differently, and not at all 'classical'. A very large part of the repertoire of both Bocelli and Rieu isn't 'classical' to begin with.
People will not learn to appreciate Picasso through a Mickey Mouse version of 'Guernica'. One either appreciates anything for what it is, or one doesn't.
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I understand your point.
Many musics he play and conduct are not classical, but a significative part still is.
This can rouse interest for classical to youger generaions.
In the 80's there was a big polemic when Ted Turner started colorizing films, and the processe back then was very rude, artificial looking. But many people, who never gave a chance to B&W films, started to watching the colorized versions and then the original B&W versions. Today the market of old B&W films is larger, partially thanks to the colorization polemic.
Not that Rieu's work is like a rude 80's colorization, but a different approuch. It's like say that music and nice sounds don't need to be always a band (guitar, bass, drums) or eletronic pumping.
And come on... maybe it help to broke a little he arrogance and selfish that remains in classical world.
There is a anti-individualism feeling in his shows too, and I thinks that's health.
Now a question:
Why all genius work need to belong just to burried guys ?
Why we don't have, or we not not recognized, actual genius's work (if that exist), symphonies etc ? (and I'm not talking about Rieu now)
Last edited by Beto-Music (24-02-2011 18:58)