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In the Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut
Post Subject: The nature of artistic accidentsPosted by Romy the Cat on: 2/21/2008
I see, we just use meaning of “accident” in artistic expressiveness differently. I would certainly do not consider a Cat walking across a piano and playing with her paws the Moonlight Sonata as an “accident”. These types of accidents are just outside of my attention. I am more event-centric in my view of accidental performances. An accidental in Art to me is something that is outside of the pattern of predictability and repetitiveness. For instance a very mediocre piano player with very bad feeling f rhythm can sit and accidently very well balanced to play such a work as Schumann Toccata in C major. Or as very second-rate conductor with an orchestra of the high-school level can accidently to throw a performing event of extraordinary magnitude. It does happen sometimes and I do believe in those accidents. I do feel that some successes that Nanut and his orchestra had were more accidental then typical for them. Surely, no one would tell more defiantly then the people who specialize in Nanut, who head his “habitual” performances. From what I heard I do feel that Nanut Mahler 6 was a lucky accidents. I do not think it demeans Nanut in any way. it juts suggest that the rest of his recordings, Mahler for instance, is not as interesting as that Mahler 6.
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