Over at the
Globe this morning, Richard Dyer seems to be in
an unusually dialectical mood in reviewing a couple of last week's Tanglewood concerts.
Historically informed performance vs. unrelieved Romanticism,
celebrity vs. musicality,
big picture guy vs. micromanager—it's all here, a mouth-watering Hegelian smorgasbord.
And then (referring to said micromanager) Dyer tosses in one last either-or:
He is a truly formidable musician, but an unsmiling one, and there is no room for playfulness or charm in an approach built on precision and power.
Yeah,
those things never go together.
1 comment:
Amen to that, Signore Guerrieri! Thanks for the inspiration. Write on, write on (right on).
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