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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000007.txt from 2005/03
From: h.micklem@-----.uk
Subj: [DR-L] Re:Stravinsky Danses Concertantes
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:41:37 -0500
I've just been listening to an old recording of Danses Concertantes by
>> Robert Craft with the Columbia Orchestra (under the supervision of
>> Stravinsky, according to the insert) and am curious about the oboe
>> sound. Can anyone tell me who was playing on that recording and
>> whether the sound was usual for that player? I started off disliking
>> the sound, but then began to think that it really suited the character
>> of the piece ; so I wonder whether it was something that
> >> Craft/Stravinsky asked for particularly.
>
>> 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
>
>
>
>> Thanks, Jennifer, for your wise, though perhaps a tad patronising,
>> words.
>
>My words were not intended to be patronising to anybody; the very
>praise worthy oboist in question, the people concerned, or Stravinsky;
>and most definitely not to yourself.
>
> > "tinged with an appreciation of things past" :-).
>
>Patronising?
>>
>> Spedding
>>
>>
>
>I happen to talk like that and write in that way.
>How warm a welcome back to the list.
>
>Jennifer
Jennifer,
I did thank you primarily for your _wise_ words. I suggested that the
tone was_perhaps_ a bit patronising. I still think it sounds that
way, but accept that that was not your intention. I enjoyed your
expression "tinged with an appreciation of things past"; that's why I
put a :-) by it.
Your many contributions to the list have always been of interest and
value. I did not wish to belittle this one, merely to state that I
was still interested in an answer to my original question, which you
seemed to consider not worth asking. I think it's quite an
interesting question. How one might be affected by the answer
depends, of course, on many things.
Kind regards,
Spedding
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