Challenging Performance, Chapter 18.2 : Comparison with theatre practice
Dec 23, 2024•12 min
Episode description
We have only to imagine how dreary theatre would be if every performance of ‘Hamlet’ used the same gestures and the same intonations—all enforced by an ideologically-contrained community of actors and gatekeepers claiming to be faithful—to see how disastrously classical music has backed itself into a corner.
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