Comments on: Authenticity http://bgthomas.com/2007/10/14/authenticity/ Sun, 20 May 2012 03:47:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Jeffrey Moidel http://bgthomas.com/2007/10/14/authenticity/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Jeffrey Moidel Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:08:07 +0000 http://bgthomas.com/?p=39#comment-13 Yes, authenticity always come back as a question from teachers, critics, colleagues, and ultimately from our own inner critic. But what does it mean to be authentically ourselves, when we have so many aspects of our own personalities to draw from? Even as a composer and performer of my own music, I am constantly changing the interpretation depending on my inspiration that day. So I think that music is a living, breathing thing, which has a home in the world you choose for it. And even though I like to follow J.S. Bach's suggestions for ornamentation and C.P.E. Bach's rules for executing those ornaments, it needs to make sense to me now, today, in my own world. Besides that, I wanted to ask you what type of instrument you were playing to make the recording of the partita on the website. It's quite lovely, and so is your interpretation. Yes, authenticity always come back as a question from teachers, critics, colleagues, and ultimately from our own inner critic. But what does it mean to be authentically ourselves, when we have so many aspects of our own personalities to draw from? Even as a composer and performer of my own music, I am constantly changing the interpretation depending on my inspiration that day. So I think that music is a living, breathing thing, which has a home in the world you choose for it. And even though I like to follow J.S. Bach’s suggestions for ornamentation and C.P.E. Bach’s rules for executing those ornaments, it needs to make sense to me now, today, in my own world.

Besides that, I wanted to ask you what type of instrument you were playing to make the recording of the partita on the website. It’s quite lovely, and so is your interpretation.

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