'Provenance' is more than a multimedia concert. It's a journey that unifies cultures through music, theater and beautiful visuals.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
Music reality shows provide a platform to people who have talent and gives them visibility and exposure. It is a win-win situation for participants.
It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.
Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.
Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.
It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.
A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater.
Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.
The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.
The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.