Challenging Performance, Chapter 22.4 : Music as social action
In performance one seeks to accomplish many things as well as moving and engaging listeners: these include creating benefits of various kinds, practical, social, financial, psychological, health-relat...
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Challenging Performance, Chapter 22.5 : Assessing non-standard performances
In the much more varied performance culture envisaged here, evaluation of performance need be no harder than it has always been: performances are made to engage, to stimulate, to excite, to fascinate,...
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Challenging Performance, Chapter 23.1 : Exchanging the Moonlight and Erlkönig
Two striking examples of challenging performances that 'shouldn't' work but do.
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Challenging Performance, Chapter 23.2 : How many Ave Marias?
Wondering how many different performances a classical musician could give of the same score, I asked friends and colleagues what they thought might be possible...
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Challenging Performance, Chapter 23.3 : Further transgressive performances
An overview of the wide variety of creatively transgressive performances available on the Challenging Performance website, challengingperformance.com.
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Challenging Performance, Chapter 24.2 : How we made ‘Dido & Belinda’
Ella Marchment (Helios Collective, director), Leo Geyer (conductor, composer) and I (as dramaturg) developed a reading of Purcell's 'Dido & Aeneas' score which made new, coherent sense of the text and...
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Challenging Performance, Chapter 24.3 : ‘Dido & Belinda’ -- what the performers thought
The results of a questionnaire among the performers of 'Dido & Belinda' finds most happy with both the process and the outcome, some to their great surprise.
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