I've Coined A New Term - Christopher Hogwash !

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    This post is related to the HIP debate here.  I've come up with a new term to describe the way HIP musicians  talk about how
"authentic " they are and how they have purportedly found the "right" way to do the music of the past,  and how they use this assumption to
sneer at ,belittle an dismiss  performances on modern instruments. 
     It's Christopher Hogwash, a pun on the well-known HIP conductor's name. No disrespect to him,really,as I've enjoyed SOME of his recordings.
    Yes, it's arrogant and presumptuous for any musician to claim to have found the "right" way to perform music by any composer of the past.,
because we can never know what long dead composers would or would not have approved of.  We don't know that Beethoven would not have been thrilled to hear the "inauthentic "Chicago symphony under the late,great Sir Georg Solti play his symphonies or other works,for example.
     And aqain, I'm not opposed to the use of period instruments per se.  It's just that the way HIP musicians and others  smugly assume that they are right and others are "wrong".

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