{"id":407,"date":"2010-01-21T14:22:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=407"},"modified":"2010-01-21T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T14:22:29","slug":"the_representative_from_dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/01\/the_representative_from_dc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Representative from D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"

Anne Midgette weighs in on the discussion over on her blog The Classical Beat<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I do think it’s unfortunate, though, when there’s no sense of a
\nperson behind the playing. Classical music can suffer from a sense of
\nentitlement: there’s an idea that the music is so great it’s enough
\njust to play it, and everyone should be in awe. Yes: the music is that
\ngreat. That’s precisely why the performer has to work so hard to delve
\ninto it, to bring it across, to make it more than merely notes executed
\nwell. (The same thing, incidentally, holds true of reviews: in an ideal
\nworld they should be more than merely obedient reports.) As for the
\nextra-musical aspect: historically, audiences have always been hugely
\ninterested in the figure of the performer on a personal level. To say
\nthat this aspect should be off-limits, or is not relevant, is to draw
\nan artificial boundary.<\/p>\n

But how far, in our age of media saturation, do you go? Are people in Washington this month going to be more likely to go hear Jeremy Denk<\/a> if they read his blog<\/a> (they should!), or Augustin Hadelich<\/a> if they know he was badly burned in a house fire when he was in his teens, or Anne Schwanewilms<\/a> if they know that she was involved in the story of Deborah Voigt and the little black dress<\/a>?
\nEven more to the point, for marketers: How do you distinguish Garrick
\nOhlsson from Emanuel Ax in the season brochure in a way that would help
\na first-time ticket buyer to understand which of the two he might
\nrather hear? (That question is usually answered, in practice, with the
\negregious overuse of terms like “great,” or “leading pianist of his
\ngeneration.”) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here<\/a> for Anne’s entire Smart-and-Good-As-Always post. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anne Midgette weighs in on the discussion over on her blog The Classical Beat: I do think it’s unfortunate, though, when there’s no sense of a person behind the playing. Classical music can suffer from a sense of entitlement: there’s an idea that the music is so great it’s enough just to play it, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"category-prdebate","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}