# The Concert of the Past

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Piers Hellawell
- Year: 2002
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Music
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/concert-past)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

This talk addresses the related question of what constitutes a work's identity. Does music reside within score or performance - in its body or its soul? If in the score, as modern 'authenticity' traditions suggest, is interpretation defunct? It is hoped to introduce a leading thinker who argues that what we hear is 'the work', and that a vocabulary of performance style is needed to help us define music through its realisation.

## Lectures

1. [The Concert of the Past](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/concert-past/c2fffb460c81) (YouTube)