Friday, June 03, 2005

Interpretation
I think interpretation is trying to liberate what one is unconscious about. When one can let go some things one doesn't know are there - the unexpected things and the surprises in the performance - that's when its worthwhile. This is also what I appreciate in other performers. When they are masters of their means of expression, this does not exactly interest me. That interests me in a teacher, but in a performer I am interested in what happens behind or in spite of the things the performer consciously wants to do. Maybe I am a little bit of a voyeur, you know, that way. But this is what I love.
Martha Argerich ~ from a 1978 interview