Structuring your expressive movement proposition.
The Art of Maria Callas
(Until min. 12:19)
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Eleonora Duse
"The Grace" (Page 8-9)
Link:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Playing_to_the_Gods/FeuiDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Eleonora+Duse&printsec=frontcover
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Yuan Pei Fu’s Plum Tree
Regino Pedroso
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strategic self-Orientalization in Cuban art and literature. Thus, in the
collection of “Chinese poems” Yuan Pei Fu’s Plum Tree (El ciruelo de Yuan Pei
Fu;1955), Chinese Cuban Regino Pedroso (1896-1983) abandons the Modernista and
avant-guard, socially committed direction of previous works, to concentrate,
from a philosophical and nostalgic point of view, on the re-creation of the
exotic world of his ancestors. In the introduction, the author challenges the
innovations of contemporary avant-guard poets by claiming the central position
of poetry in the culture of his ancestors: “for the man of this millenary race,
poetry is not a simple game of the intellect [....] but an emotional way of
feeling and seeing life.”[12] In fact, here Pedroso is resorting to a sort of
strategic essentialism or, rather, strategic self-Orientalization to defend his
own poetry as a more authentic discourse than that of his avant-guard peers. In
this sense, at the same time that he falls into occasional essentialist views
of the Chinese,[13] he claims, through a sort of affected exoticism, a Chinese
space that is impenetrable for westerners but not for him, since his Chinese
ancestry provides him with a cognitive ability denied to the West: “the only
thing is that for Westerners it will always be difficult to penetrate the depth
of his smile.”
Ignacio Lopez-Calvo
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Pung Cholom, Manipuri performance | Dance with the Pung (Mridang) or Drum
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ACTIVITY
After discussing the above pieces of information, write your reflection on how you could apply them to your own practice.
I always heard some espero musician friends say: “ it is important that you sing well but even more important that you interpret well”. There are many people who sing well, but few who really do music. This class in which we talked about the depth of interpretation that an artist must have when makes music left me again with the mentality of not thinking only about technique. That it is true that we must study structurally and that the technique helps us to have security but we must really do it’s being the Interpreter of the music, we are just a part of this whole story. It’s now just the singing or the orchestra, it’s the whole world in one. It’s not easy, at least for me as singer do not think about the technique when I’m singing but I now that I have to challenge myself if I really want to be a successful “interpreter”. I need to trust in my mind and my body. Let’s work on that
ReplyDeleteAt the begging I wanted to say: I always heard some “experts” musicians.
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