Wow! A whole page about a classical musician in today's International Herald Tribune !
Keeping Bach in His Blood, by Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, April 9th 2013
.... The watershed goes back to the 1920s, when instrument technology changed and continuous vibrato became the norm. Around the same time, the freedom of the interpreter began to be curtailed by composers demanding exact adherence to an ever-more-precisely notated text.
"It represents the absolute break of the tradition from Monteverdi to early Stravinsky, whereby the interpreter has freedom to use gesture and rhetoric and passion to articulate, vary and embellish what's written down, Mr Gardiner said. "If you think about it, the written page of music is so limiting".
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MK: or, as someone else has said, "Music creates notation. Notation does not create music."
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