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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000003.txt from 2005/03
From: Jackie Kovach <jl.kovach@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Re:Stravinsky Danses Concertantes query
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:38:04 -0500
Although I can't be sure, it seems to me that the oboist in most of the
recordings of the Columbia Orchestra was Robert Bloom. I can easily
stand to be corrected.
Jackie
On Mar 1, 2005, at 7:38 PM, h.micklem@-----.uk wrote:
>> 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=
>>
>>> 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=
>>
>>> the sound, but then began to think that it really suited the
>>> character=20=
>>
>>> of the piece ; so I wonder whether it was something that=20
>>> Craft/Stravinsky asked for particularly.
>>>
>>> Spedding Micklem (playing it next week end and wondering whether
>>> to=20
>>> try for something similar)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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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