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The Performing Artist as Co-creator

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

 

John Dante Prevedini led an online discussion on the subject of 'The Performing Artist as Co-creator' on Wednesday 23 April 2025. The discussion included many different aspects of the interaction between 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 recording of the discussion runs for sixty-nine minutes. Watch and listen to it via this page.

John's discussion questions were 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?

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

Posted 11 April 2025 and last updated 2 May 2025
by Keith Bramich

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