{"id":861,"date":"2013-10-31T08:33:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T08:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=861"},"modified":"2013-11-05T17:57:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T17:57:14","slug":"lipattis-final-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=861","title":{"rendered":"Lipatti&#8217;s Final Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;wanting to restore to music its historical framework is like dressing an adult in an adolescent\u2019s clothes. This might have a certain charm in the context of a historical reconstruction, yet is of no interest to those other than lovers of dead leaves or the collectors of old pipes&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Music has to live under our fingers, under our eyes, in our hearts and in our brains with all that we, the living, can offer it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/Oj2M5KQ06_c\/hqdefault.jpg?feature=og\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dinu_Lipatti\" target=\"_blank\">Dinu Lipatti<\/a>\u00a0was a consummate artist whose playing was sublime.<br \/>\nAs usual, the critics are limited by their own shortsightedness and \u00a0inadequacies. This essay explains why it is important to play music in our time even if it not of our time, and how striving for \u00a0authenticity can strangle creativity in performance.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/markainley.com\/music\/classical\/lipatti\/last.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lipatti&#8217;s last essay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is my favourite surviving recording of Lipatti:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CuZOVSL5woo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bach at his final recital (with a little arpeggio)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JHjiM8uwD3k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;wanting to restore to music its historical framework is like dressing an adult in an adolescent\u2019s clothes. This might have a certain charm in the context of a historical reconstruction, yet is of no interest to those other than lovers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=861\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,77,225],"tags":[309,308,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}