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RE: 10-year performances summary
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Chris Villars
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Sep 23, 2009 05:34 PDT
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Hi Suzie,
That does appear to be the case, but, as I said, the past performances
list is imcomplete and it may be that it is "more incomplete" for
earlier works than later ones. There could be two reasons for this: 1)
The list is based on the UE list, which only covers works they publish
(1969 onwards) and 2) Performers are probably less inclined to notify me
directly of concerts in which just one or two of the shorter early works
are included than of concerts which feature the larger scale later
works. That said, the differences in the numbers of listed performances
between earlier and later works are pretty large, which suggests that,
nothwithstanding the reservations above, Feldman's later works probably
are more often played in public than his early ones.
Differences amongst the later works themselves are not subject to the
above reservations I guess. Why then only one performance of SQ1 versus
26 of SQ2!? Only four of "For Christian Wolff" versus 28 of "For Philip
Guston"!? Does this reflect performer preference or concert organiser
preference? Maybe knowing these discrepancies might help encourage more
performances of the "neglected" works?
Regards -
Chris
Chris Villars
www.cnvill.net
suzie.la-@googlemail.com wrote:
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Chris:
Is another observation that Feldman's earlier works are performed less
often than his later works? The King of Denmark is the only early(ish)
work on your lists!
Suzie L
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