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The Performing Artist as Co-creator

John Dante Prevedini will lead an online discussion for Classical Music Daily on Wednesday 23 April 2025

 

John Dante Prevedini will lead an online discussion on the subject of 'The Performing Artist as Co-creator' on Wednesday 23 April 2025. Everyone is welcome to join us. We hope that the discussion will include many different aspects of the interaction between the performers, composers and other creators. This subject was suggested by Yekaterina Lebedeva after our last online meeting in December.

The Performing Artist as Co-creator

The discussion will run for one hour, and will use the Zoom online meeting software. This is the link to join us :

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88296089882?pwd=ZWp3dDlod2krekhpbTVISHp6bDhPZz09

Meeting ID: 882 9608 9882
Passcode: 503818

It's advisable to test this link beforehand to check that it works on your device.

The start time is shown below in various time zones:

Canada / USA west coast08:00 PDTWednesday 23 April
Canada / USA mountain time09:00 MDTWednesday 23 April
Canada / USA east coast11:00 EDTWednesday 23 April
Iceland     15:00 UCT/GMTWednesday 23 April
Ireland / UK     16:00 IST/BSTWednesday 23 April
Central Europe / South Africa17:00 CEST/SASTWednesday 23 April
Eastern Europe18:00 EESTWednesday 23 April
India20:30 ISTWednesday 23 April
Hong Kong / Singapore23:00 HKT/SGT     Wednesday 23 April
Japan00:00 JST     Thursday 24 April
Sydney, Australia01:00 AESTThursday 24 April
New Zealand03:00 NZSTThursday 24 April

Please join us if you can. You can also pass on details to anyone else who you think might be interested in taking part.

If you're unavailable at this time, it will also be possible to record a contribution from now until the end of Tuesday 29 April 2025, using the Zoom link above.

You can join the meeting using audio only if you don't have a camera on your device or you prefer that your face doesn't appear on the published recording.

If you don't have a microphone on your device, you can join the meeting, watch and listen, and send us text-based messages during the meeting which we should be able to read out to everyone.

If the meeting time isn't suitable for you, you can record a message for us in advance of the meeting, using the Zoom link above, from now onwards. We can then play your message during the meeting, if you wish, and discuss what you say.

John's provisional discussion questions are as follows:

1. What is a 'work' in the Western classical tradition?

2. How much interpretive freedom does a performer have before a work loses its identity?

3. How does the composer-performer relationship differ in this genre from in other genres (like jazz or pop)?

4. How do techniques such as aleatory composition affect the balance between composer and performer?

The discussion will be recorded, edited into a video podcast and published here on 1 May 2025. Our video newsletters normally receive well over a thousand views.

Before publication, we'll send everyone who took part a 'proof' video which they can comment on, in case anything occurs during the meeting that anyone would prefer not to be published.

After participants have seen the proof, it should also be possible to record further comments using the link above, which we can publish as part of the final video.

If you can't (or prefer not to) use Zoom, short comments that you send before and afterwards can also be recorded and sent using any standard audio or video file format, such as MP3 or MP4 etc, or (by prior arrangement) via Signal or WhatsApp.

The conversation will be in English. During the session, please keep your audio muted except when you're actually speaking, to avoid background sounds appearing in the final mix. Please don't use AI software to change the appearance of your face or to generate comments.

If you would like to join us, please contact us in advance, so that we can send you a reminder before the meeting starts.

You can view our previous video discussions via the newsletters page.

Posted 11 April 2025 and last updated 18 April 2025
by Keith Bramich

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