Chair of Artistic Creation
Extracts from the inaugural lecture:“Is it justified to entrust a performer with a Chair of Artistic Creation? Is this not over-estimating the role of a servant of composers and their works? Is it not giving in to the all-too-common tendency to put the performer, whether brilliant or insignificant,...
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| Dans: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/lettre-cdf, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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La lettre du Collège de France
2010
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | Extracts from the inaugural lecture:“Is it justified to entrust a performer with a Chair of Artistic Creation? Is this not over-estimating the role of a servant of composers and their works? Is it not giving in to the all-too-common tendency to put the performer, whether brilliant or insignificant, in the foreground – a habit that spurs the sensational and all its consequences? On the contrary, I believe that it is a way of taking advantage of the performer’s highly singular position as an i... |
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