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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000001.txt from 2005/03
From: h.micklem@-----.uk
Subj: [DR-L] Re:Stravinsky Danses Concertantes query
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 19:40:48 -0500
>doublereed Digest 1 Mar 2005 20:15:00 -0000 Issue 477
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>Topics (messages 1469 through 1469):
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>Re: Stravinsky Danses Concertantes query
> 1469 by: Jennifer I.Paull
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>On Monday, February 28, 2005, at 06:03 pm, h.micklem@-----.uk wrote:
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>> Greetings -
>>
>> I've just been listening to an old recording of Danses Concertantes by=20=
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>> Robert Craft with the Columbia Orchestra (under the supervision of=20
>> Stravinsky, according to the insert) and am curious about the oboe=20
>> sound. Can anyone tell me who was playing on that recording and=20
>> whether the sound was usual for that player? I started off disliking=20=
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>> the sound, but then began to think that it really suited the character=20=
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>> of the piece ; so I wonder whether it was something that=20
>> Craft/Stravinsky asked for particularly.
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>> Spedding Micklem (playing it next week end and wondering whether to=20
>> try for something similar)
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>>
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>Dear Spedding,
>
>I really believe that the purpose of playing is to say
>something and interpret in your own way, that which
>the composer wrote and the conductor encourages to
>hang together (!).
>
>We cannot suppose what happened at this recording,
>whether or not the oboist in question was admired or
>tolerated - whether all good cane was lost in the
>flooding of Fr=E9jus or whether this morsel was the stuff
>of everyone's dreams (or nightmares).
>
>The fact that you have heard and admired it will
>cast a hue upon your own interpretation. May I suggest
>therefore, that you simply play as yourself? In so
>doing, you will be your own original, tinged with an
>appreciation of things passed. Isn't that what we
>should be doing for everything we play?
>
>I hope very much that you enjoy your concert.
>With best wishes from the Polar wastes of central
>Europe,
>
>Jennifer
Thanks, Jennifer, for your wise, though perhaps a tad patronising,
words. Having been playing for more than 50 years I shall probably do
it like myself whatever happens. However, I don't always need to make
the same sound, use the same vibrato or whatever, and since this
interesting recording exists I would STILL like to know who was
playing, etc, if anyone can tell me. Thus might I be better "tinged
with an appreciation of things past" :-).
Spedding
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