Update for Issue 5: Jordi Savall

August 28th, 2007

I profiled the viola da gamba player Jordi Savall in issue 5 who talked about playing the music of the 17th century French composers Marin Marais and Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe in the movie Tous les matin du monde. Savall spoke about the intense study needed to recreate the styles of these masters for the film and the imaginative leap he had to make in order to perform this music in an authentic style. This story about his recent travails on a plane trip to Scotland show that it’s probably getting harder and harder to put himself in a Sainte-Colombe state of mind. I mean, I bet that Marin Marais never had to deal with a flight attendant trying to lock his gamba in the toilet.-MJS

Entry Filed under: FJ Issue 5