Wednesday, October 27, 2010

"Destiny" by Vanessa Mae



Destiny is taken from birthday gal Vanessa-Mae's 2001 album Subject to Change, which is a very pointed title indeed...

For all that she's been criticized for destroying classical music (especially by British pundits - surprise!) I prefer to take the less apocalyptic view that she is simply bringing it up to date, allowing purists to slowly ossify in their repetitive and stultifying traditions. Of course, I do run a blog which is essentially history-based, so I'm not entirely devoid of respect for the past; I'm simply opposed to using sentimentality as a stick for beating back (or in any way preventing) progress - which anyway is as inevitable as a model-pretty concert level violinist making 21st Century classical music her way.

As she herself has said: 'Purists say that they know what they like, but in fact they only like what they know.' Amen...
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5 comments:

  1. lcdseattleThursday, October 30, 2008 at 1:46:00 PM PDT

    Ohhh, a fusion artist. You have found a weak spot in my musical armor. I must now give her money and enjoy her albums!

    Thanks for cluing me in, I don't know how I have missed her all these years.

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  2. Seumas GagneThursday, October 30, 2008 at 3:45:00 PM PDT

    She's pretty cool! Who cares if she's making new sounds - it's not like it's stealing audience dollars away from the London Yawnharmonic?

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  3. michael sean morrisThursday, October 30, 2008 at 3:57:00 PM PDT

    I figured I'd get Mr. Gagne with this one, but as usual Mr. Davey you surprise me.

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  4. lcdseattleThursday, October 30, 2008 at 4:06:00 PM PDT

    I will most likely download Storm and take it with me to Vegas but sadly it appears that iTunes doesn't have a huge selection of her work. I may have to, yuk, purchase a CD.

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  5. michael sean morrisThursday, October 30, 2008 at 4:26:00 PM PDT

    Buy a CD? How 90s!

    Oh well, you'll be able to tell people you did something "old school"...

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