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Show Capturing the musics spirit is Raymond Leppards quest By Paul Wetzel Tribune Staff Writer Debates over performance practice in early music have raged for decades and conductor Raymond Leppard has been right in the thick of the battle. Mr. Leppard, who arrived in Salt Lake City Tuesday morning to prepare for performances with the Utah Symphony later in the week, has long been known as an authority on Baroque and Renaissance music, opera in particular. His realizations of operas by Monteverdi and Francesco Cavalli have returned these works to the repertoire. These realizations have been praised by some and criticized by others. In a recent column in the New York Times, John Rockwell, commenting on a new CBS recording of Monteverdis II Ritomo dUlisse in Patria conducted by Mr. Leppard, noted that the conductor employed modem instruments and that the overall sound is fat and full, and the string playing unashamed to exploit the full expressivity of modem vibrato. Drives Purists Crazy Mr. Rockwell This, notes, drives the purists of Baroque performance practice crazy. They prefer smaller orchestral forces made up of players performing on period instruments or reconstructions, subtle rubato, singing which conforms precisely to the register and tuning the composer intended, less vibrato in the strings. In all, a smaller, more ornate, less brilliant, less Romantic sound. While all of this may sound to some like tempest-in-a-teapargumentation among scholars, its not. The differences between the two types of performance values are readily discernible to just about anybody s ear Its somewhat ironic to see Mr. Leppard arrayed against the purists He studied early music at Cambridge University and he later taught there for 10 yetrs. In 1969 his scholarship was honored by an invitation to deliver the Italian lecture to the British Academy. After pursuing the dual roles of academic and performer for many years, Mr. Leppard left the univerisity in 1969 to devote all Ids time to conducting. Compromise In Music A discussion with Mr. Leppard at Symphony Hall Tuesday touched on the question of performance practice and it revealed something of his larger views on music as well. ot -- I think the answer to it all lies in a marvelous word, compromise, the conductor said. At no point in our lives do we not compromise. There is no such thing as an entirely pure anything. The search for authenticity is a sort of chimera. Its a search for something that doesnt exist. To create a perfectly authentic Baroque performance, one would literally have to recreate all of the of a past time, conditions mental and physical the conductor asserts, and that, obviously, is impossible. In short, we simply cant reconstr.ct 1754 in 1981. In Mr. Leppards view, authenticity becomes such a preoccupation to some academic minds that they overlook what he terms the content of the music Music, if its anything at all, is in a certain symbolic way a representation of life, of the vital The Salt Lake Tribune, Wednesday . 4 Whats Happening Today V U tensions and relaxations and all the various things human manifestations of vitality. Vitality is the word. Thats what music has if it has anything, if its alive at all. It sounds like a platitude to say it, but its crucial. Green River, First Presbyterian pm Salt Lake Repertory Orchestra, David Dalton, guest conductor, Lenora Ford Neal, piano soloist, will be grist to the mill. But in my view, of the mind which eventually F.ast its only a conditioning 1754. Its this wonderful thing called compromise. To all puritans and all scholars, Compromise is a dirty word. . . This is why, eventually, I gave up academic life. I found that the academic life and the performers life were, finally, aiming at different Theatre, University of Utah, 8 i.m. Carnival, Promised Valley Playhouse, 132 S. State, 8 p.m. Rules Restrict Ive done an awful lot of reading and a lot of work I a Tribune Staff Photo by Ravel Call Raymond Leppard will conduct the Utah Symphony in concerts at Weber State I Colleges Browning Center Thursday and Symphony Hall Friday and Saturday. Art center director resigns Allen Dodworth, Director of the Salt Lake Art Center, will resign his post in JACK BftlMHAU.. ThE Mr. Dodworth made the announcement to the art centers board of trustees Monday. Mr. Dodworth was director of the Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho, before coming to the Salt Lake Art Center in 1975. He was director of the center when it moved from the Art Bam on Finch Lane and Reservoir Park to its present home at 20 S. 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TiEIMElIFEljlSaa School High ditorium. 840 13th East, 8 pm. Sky watchers of Ancient Mexico, Hansen Planetarium, 15 S. State, 11 a m., 2, 4, and 8 p.m. will control the manner in which you give yourself to the vitality of the music. Thats the main function of the interpreter, to give himself to this vitality in such a way that he can render it immediate to the public in and a lot of teaching in this particular field, for example, 18th century practice, but its all subsumed knowledge. When I start to perform Im just a performer. I cant put aside the knowledge I have, but I dont make it (the knowledge) a rule. Rules restrict, unfortunately. An academic mind is essentially a no mind. Dont do that because it wasnt done even if youre not sure whether it was done or not. The performers mind assumes his knowledge, lets it be in his mind, because it can never be anywhere else profitably, and Performing, Mr. Leppard says, is like a love affair. Unless you actually have a love affair, you cant actually be in love. Unless you actually perform, you cant actually be authentic in music. Authenticity of the spirit of the music: that should be the final quest. Mr. Leppard will conduct the Utah Symphony in performances Thursday at the Browning Center, Weber State College, Ogden, and Friday and Saturday in Symphony Hall, Salt Lake City. The program for all three performances will include the Handel Concerto for Two Wind Choruses in B flat, the Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 5 and the Victor Herbert Cello Concert No. 2 with soloint Lynn Harrell. All performances are scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. p.m. Church, South Temple and C St., 8 p.m. Word Affair, Art Bam, Reservoir Park and Finch Lane, featuring poets Liz Rccmsthma, Chuck Gregg, Jeff Harris, and Pat Ashley, 8 p m., free. Utah Valley Symphony Youth Artists Concert, Provo LDS Tabernacle, 8 Grist for the MiU In addition to matters of ornamentation, instrumentation and style, he (the performer) must be aware of the ethos of the time. What was Handel after? What was Bach after? They were after different things. Thats what you have to know, as well as how the ornaments worked, how they fingered on violins, how they fingered on a harpsichord. not in 7 Mirecourt Trio and guests, Nova Series, This does not, I think, give a musician free rein to the hell he likes with anything. What he must respect is, I think, his knowledge of the stylistic problems confronting the composer and the players of the composers day. 1981, Dance Theatre, Book Cliff Elementary School, do what this J Childrens The performer's job is to render as immediate and as powerfully as possible those sentient emotions, those sentient pulsations of vitality, that are encapsulated in the piece of music hes performing. 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