Et lux et cetera
Nicht dolle vom Hocker haut mich der Anfang des Requiems („Love Requiem“) von Saed Haddad, das gerade auf SWR2 läuft. „Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine/et lux perpetua luceat eis“ – darauf muss man erstmal kommen. Aber einen Blick wert: das Flash-Gefetze auf Dr. Haddads Website, auf welcher drei Menüpunkte pragmatisch den wichtigen Dingen des Künstlerdaseins gewidmet sind: „Commissions“, „Prizes & Achievements“ und „Positions & Lectureships“.
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Dear Stephen,
By accident I came on your irresponsbile commentary on Internet. You are free with your taste, your ways of hearing and appreciation of course, but you should have at least some academic basis on which you could critize any piece you hear on the radio. For instance, how would you know that the performance was faithful (or not) to the score? You do not have a copy of the score, do you? How would you know whether the sound recording -which you heard on the braodcasting- is faithful or not to the score or even to the performance (should the performance have been genuine)? I can assure you for instance that the counter-tenor (who was off-stage as the radio presenter mentioned to the listener) was very well done during the performace, while on the braodcast the counter-tenor was perhaps louder than the on-stage singers! The piece is called “love requiem”; is their an irony embedded in the title for instance? A question which you should have asked yourself as an academic especially when the radio presenter as well as the program information on the SWR website did both mention that the text was deprived from its religious connotation by omitting intentionally the word “Deus” (or what you refer to as “Domine”) from the text ? How did your trained ears (which are evaluating and criticizing on your blog) heard “Domine” for instance, I am puzzled, when “Domine” is not at all in the text? Or how would you evaluate a requiem which has no “Domine” and any religious connotation, with a religious aspect which you clearly allude to in your commentary “darauf muss man erstmal kommen”? These are some simple questions which you need to evaluate yourself especially when you acclaim being “academic” in your bio. ( i.e. “Das 1. Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien (Fächer Geschichte und Musik) erwarb er 2008 nach Studien an der Universität und dem Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig. Dort belegte er seit 2004 Nebenfachstudien im Fach Komposition bei Gesine Schröder, 2005-2006 bei Anders Hultqvist und Ole Lützow-Holm als Austauschstudent an der Musikhochschule Göteborg, seit 2006 bei Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf in Leipzig. In dessen Kompositionsklasse ist er seit 2008 Aufbaustudent.)
Please make sure for the future that when you want to criticize any piece, think, evaluate and criticize on the basis of open-midness, research and questionning. Saed Haddad.
I frankly have to admit not to have read your score, of course. And I neither did recognize the word Domine – which I just recalled spontaneously by mind. I understand my blog more of a place where I put first impressions, short notes, and comments. Which unfortunately makes it lack of the analytic depth, which you demand. But on the same time, the shortness implies an explicit non-academic approach, I think. This is not what is expected on blogs, Twitter and so on. I understand blogs et cetera quiet enlarging and enriching the small and lifeless world of new music debates.
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