Ohhhh Andrew honey, stop!! You KNOW damn well what She meant! ;) Don't
parse this -  you know what she is talking about is *artistry.* Though she
did her research like nobody, she was always happy to throw it over board
in favor of a scintillating interpretation that electrified. The whole
point of her statement is that interpretation  is SUPPOSED to be
subjective.

As someone with a musicology degree and who is still very much a fan of
musicology, I say very strongly that Scholarship is not the point of
performance. Put another way, You can yack all you want about great sex -
and to some degree yacking about it is useful - but at the end of the day
when it's  you and your beloved on the bed, I'm hopeful that for everyone's
sake, you're not sitting there with a clipboard reviewing bullet point by
bullet point just exactly what you're going to be doing, in what position
and for how long....
The whole point is that it's all as subjective and spontaneous As possible.
Fin :)




On Thursday, January 7, 2016, Andrew Bernard <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Much as I admire Wanda Landowska – and I do admire her – to use this as
> the clincher in your argument is philosophically problematic. For who is to
> say what ‘sounds right’? This is entrely subjective. What sounded right to
> her in her Pleyel sounds dreadful to many contemporary people. Her
> musicianship is supreme, but directed in a way that many contemporary
> players do not find attractive or moving. And so on.
>
> And then, what is ‘right’ or correct? Who is to say?
>
> It’s one of those glib quotes that is memorable and catchy, but empty of
> value, and the disregard implied toward scholarship is disappointing.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
> On 8/01/2016, 03:13, "Harpsichords and Related Topics on behalf of Michael
> Brazile" <[log in to unmask] <javascript:;> on behalf of
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>
> As Wanda Landowska once told Paul Wolfe, with whom I studied: "If it sounds
> right, it IS right, nevermind what the books and the treatises say."
>
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