Snape, the "Deeply Horrible Person"

[jmgarciaiii]

No: HPFGUIDX 94602

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Nora Renka" <nrenka at y...> 
wrote:
[snippity doo dah]

> As for authors and works, let me make the best example that I know 
> of, even though it's not literary.  Britten's opera 'Peter Grimes' 
> had Jon Vickers as one of its great interpreters, who brought out 
> something from the text in a way that Britten hated--his 
conception 
> of the character was rather different.  This is valid, but with 
one 
> problem...Vickers' interpretation of the character couldn't make 
> sense of as many of the aspects of the text and music as Pears, 
> Britten's chosen interpreter, did.  So while one can enjoy 
Vickers, 
> it's not as 'good' of an interpretation.

I'll take the analogy from the sublime to the ridiculous:

It's similar to high-end audio gear. A certain piece (an amplifier, 
say) of equipment may give a certain "coloration" to a particular 
bit of music that might be (widely? generally? universally? not-
uncommonly?) considered pleasant, while another piece might give a 
less colored and less pleasant but more accurate sound. We may 
prefer the former to the latter, and consider it best...but it 
wouldn't be the same exact thing that was produced in the recording 
studio, and therefore not what the musician/producer/engineer 
intended for you to hear.

-Joe in SoFla, muddying up a storm