<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>VIOLIN MUSIC</TITLE> </HEAD> <LINK rel="stylesheet" HREF="style2.css" style="text/css"> <BODY> <H2 ALIGN="center">VIRTUOSI AND INNOVATORS</H2> <H3><I>"The modern history and the future of violin music"</I></H3>
<H3><I>INTRODUCTION</I></H3> <FONT SIZE="4"><B> <P>Recently, Japanese female violinists have been playing active roles both at home and abroad. Midori Goto, after her shocking debut, and Akiko Suwanai, the Tchaikovsky competition winner, have been invited by world first-class orchestras to appear as soloists, and charmed the audience presenting conventionally interpreted music -- in other words, the music which the audience does not feel out of place. These violinists,including many other players such as Yuzuko Horigome, Kyoko Takezawa,Teiko Maehashi and so on, will surely grow and become what is called virtuosi. Of coure I appreciate their virtuosity, however,I am doubtful that even one artist who has an innovative attidude towards the interpretation of the works, which can only make it possible for musical performance and music itself to evolve, might appear among them. Without this creative interpretation, and the technique required to play sophisticated modern works, music might cease its development. This would mean the degradation of music.</P>