tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post1286297673192102578..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-43182551257399943432015-04-28T12:54:35.758+01:002015-04-28T12:54:35.758+01:00Philip, I too was depressed to find Jordi Savall i...Philip, I too was depressed to find Jordi Savall involved in Abu Dhabi, particularly as I suspect that funding from that source will find its way into a future Ibn Battuta book and CD project. <br /><br />I expressed my puzzlement about his involvement in a post in October last year. As you will know I have a good relationship with Jordi Savall, and I invited him to respond to my piece. Despite several assurances from his office that he would respond I have heard nothing further. <br /><br />I know that Jordi Savall is a very busy person, and <i>On An Overgrown Path</i> is not in the same league as the <i>New York Times</i>. But I suspect that the reason why I have heard nothing is that it is impossible to justify the unjustifiable.<br /><br />http://www.overgrownpath.com/2014/10/jordi-savalls-bold-gesture-leaves-me.html Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-72375754955560536922015-04-28T10:57:22.023+01:002015-04-28T10:57:22.023+01:00It is thoroughly depressing to see Savall and Fisc...It is thoroughly depressing to see Savall and Fischer on this list. The rest do not particularly surprise me. I see among them the egotistical and the mindless, the ambitious, the greedy, and the oblivious. Mutter is perhaps just in search of an 85 year-old sheikh to marry.<br /><br /> What I particularly note is that other than Savall and Fischer, none of the musicians on this list has ever had much interest for me, a few decidedly otherise. On the other hand, I have long harboured a perhaps rather outre hypothesis -- not a theory, for it is grounded only in my own experience, and I am well-aware that it involves a chicken-and-egg problem. It is simply that I have found that almost all musicians whose performances I most admire, in some cases revere, were good people, principled, pleasant of personality, and of exemplary character. There may be no validity in this, but I cannot dismiss the possibility that these traits are reflected in their re-creations of musical works, and it is this I hear. Re that chicken, I realised later in life that the musicians I most admired in childhood and youth possessed the fine qualities, while others I did not care for were in many cases the opposite -- this before I knew anything about their characters and convictions, if any. I think it would take a musicologist cum psychologist to determine if there is anything in this.Philip Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739418522974972567noreply@blogger.com