MTV (!) Salutes Nikolaus Harnoncourt, ‘Classical Music’s Punk Genius’

“‘This brave hero who had the courage to scale back vibrato’ is a weird thing to think, much less type. But in the context of 1950s classical music, historically informed practice landed like a pink wig and a Sex Pistols t-shirt. … No kidding – this stuff is still controversial today.”

source ArtsJournal http://ift.tt/1W8FJDL

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