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Camden New Journal - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 8 February 2007
 
Our great tradition of wrinkled tights

IT came as such a relief to read that by his own admission Dr Jonathan Miller was not going to indulge in: “false modesty”. (‘Watch Big Brother to see we’re a lousy lot’, January 25).
He said: “I’m absolutely obsessed...and this is possibly why I’m a good director.”
He continued: “Period productions of opera where performers wore wrinkled tights and looked silly and...theatre actors who declaim their lines as if they were singing an aria. It makes me want to shout: ‘Oh shut up!’”
On the other hand, Alfred Brendel, another perhaps even more distinguished resident of Camden, has been quoted as saying: “If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.”
Mark Lyndon
Southampton Road
NW5


Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@camdennewjournal.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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