Challenging Performance: Classical Music Performance Norms and How to Escape Them

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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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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Two striking examples of challenging performances that 'shouldn't' work but do.

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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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An overview of the wide variety of creatively transgressive performances available on the Challenging Performance website, challengingperformance.com.

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In current opera productions the stage and music directors work alongside each other using completely different and incompatible belief systems. As we’ve seen, there is no good reason not to reread th...

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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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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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