Doublereed Archive - Posting 000017.txt from 2005/03

From: Jennifer I.Paull <info@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] not being able to resist waking sleeping dogs . . .
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 01:00:11 -0500

>
> The curmudgeon in my can't resist jumping in and piping up about the
> following:

:-)))

>
>>> Could I play a piece with the tone of Pierre Pierlot had he
>>> taken lessons with Heinz Holliger (I am aware of the generation
>>> gap)?
>
> I had the very strong impression, having spent an academic year in
> paris
> in 1976, and having met a couple of Holliger's students the following
> summer in Freiburg-im-Breisgau, that it was the other way around -
> Holliger had studied with Pierlot at the Paris Conservatoire.

I was making FICTIVE improbability - see reference to the
generation gap.

OK, let's say Leon Goossens had he taken lessons with Heinz Holliger
(also a generation in the wrong direction, not to mention style,
philosophy and a ton of other detail concerning schools of playing)
- or how about Stan Getz had he taken lessons from Tabuteau?

Trying to make fun - you know, like Joan Baez and Elizabeth
Schwartzkopf - not reality, not possible - just a smile :-)))))))))))

HUMOUR, Keith.

> Cheers,
>
> Keith Sklower

and to you,

Dear Phil,

I am not fighting words from Stravinsky. My words
were misinterpreted.

True that many composers do a better job than many
conductors on their own works, but also true that the
reverse is often the case.

I wonder what composers like Mendelssohn would say
about the ever faster tempi of the Italian and Scottish?

Also, many famous conductors were wheeled out (literally)
and others stood in for them at recordings which bore
the 'famous' name. I know that for a fact.

All part of the puzzle known as the music profession, which
is why it's always good to learn what one can and try to
smile sometimes...

Jennifer
http://www.amoris.com
Oboe Lib.

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