58) Modern interpretation of old pieces or Bandello - Shakespeare - West Side Story Written by Rainer: rainer.lehrer@yahoo.com Learn languages (via Skype): Rainer: + 36 20 549 52 97 or + 36 20 334 79 74

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Modern interpretation of old pieces or Bandello - Shakespeare - West Side Story The Italian writer Bandello wrote a love story in which both lovers surrender to death, since fate apparently had not intended them for one another. The Englishman Shakespeare tells of two hostile families, whose youngest members Romeo and Juliet cannot overcome this contrast. They want to live together and try to fix everything with a trick, but because there are also misunderstandings among lovers, ultimately only death remains. America has always been and will probably remain the desired destination for immigrants for economic reasons for some time to come. This creates social tensions. In the 1950s, there were conflicts between Latin Americans and White Americans. And of course a young member of one group fell in love with a young one of the others, which was naturally replied benevolently by the other part. Only the ethnic groups themselves didn't seem to like it, so the lover had to die. There are many stories, dramas and, today, films based on this model. And yet each is different, embedded in its time and circumstances. Benjamin Britten once said that the performance should be based on the taste of the audience. And that's why he changed the instrumental compilation of Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas". Why didn't he just write a new piece? The lasting value of a piece does not lie in how much it can be used in different fashions, but in how much it reflects the spirit of its time. We watch old pieces, listen to old music or read old literature to get an idea of ​​how people talked or thought about certain things in other times, under different circumstances or in different cultures; Perhaps to learn from it, to recognize where we come from, how it came to what we currently have and are. The model very often remains the same, but the circumstances, in which we stand, change. And that is why it makes more sense to simply write a totally new piece than to press it into our new forms, which usually only results in a distorted picture. - Or do one wants to work with connotations and use existing pieces for it? - Or to bring the old pieces closer to younger generations. The only question is whether they will not convey a distorted picture of that time. - As one always represented Jesus, Joseph, Maria and the apostles in the respective fashion of the time, whereby people in the Ku Klux Klan, for example, simply thought: "God is white!" Although we know today that if Jesus has existed at all, he had frizzy hair and half-brown skin, like all Jews in Palestine at that time. Back to list!

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