Re: Crossover killed the classical star

Date: 1 Jun 2003 20:32:25 GMT
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email-address-deleted (Alan Watkins) appears to have caused the following
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> I can't comment on the person mentioned because I don't know the artist
> but many musicians, high or low profile, do crossover work all the time.
> Maybe this person wants to try something different, artistically or
> musically or both? I can understand that people are disappointed if
> someone they admire goes into a genre they do not appreciate (I'm sorry
> that Mr Gulda did not do more classical but he truly loved his jazz and
> was great at both) but I think it is for the artist to decide and, who
> knows, our loss may be to the gain of some other section of this curious
> business called music.
Mr. O'Riley is a real classical pianist who plays Realklassik very well.
And he enjoys the music of Radiohead, for which I do not blame him, even
though I don't share that taste. But Sony "Classical" is the great Shiva
of the industry, the black hole into which serious careers plunge, and the
junkyard dog which withholds so many treasures its back catalogue. To
align with that label for the sole sake of recording crossover is, to my
thought, a dereliction of one's career as a classical recording artist.
Should you not think this is so, then please show me Yo-Yo Ma's CD of the
Elliott Carter Cello Concerto.
My guess is that this will mean no more recordings of Schumann, Prokofiev,
Stravinsky, or Busoni from Mr. O'Riley. And no more Kernis, Danielpour,
Ravel, Helps, Argento, or Maxwell Davies, to our even greater loss.
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