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The Concert of the Past - Gresham College | Lectures and Events

This talk addresses the related question of what constitutes a work’s identity. Does music reside within score or performance - in its body or its soul? If in the score, as modern ‘authenticity’ traditions suggest, is interpretation defunct? It is hoped to introduce a leading thinker who argues that what we hear is ‘the work’, and that a vocabulary of performance style is needed to help us define music through its realisation.