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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000052.txt from 2007/05
From: David Lurie <klingsor@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [DR-L] What time's the next Swan?
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 13:16:23 -0400
At 12:14 PM 5/7/2007, you wrote:
>WTH?! Do you ever talk about something that is not about you?
>
>No regard,
>Dave
Dave,
I find your msg here just gratuitously nasty for no reason having
anything to do with Harold. Most of the people I know talk
incessantly about things that are only of interest to them, or of
themselves, just like you probably do. I'm not saying you do that,
but the chances look pretty good that's the case, unless you are a
very unusual person. But there is no need - outside of your own
personal anger - to speak so nastily to Harold. IMHO, you owe him an apology.
David Lurie
>>From: "HAROLD" <harold@-----.br>
>>Reply-To: doublereed@-----.org
>>To: <doublereed@-----.org>
>>Subject: [DR-L] What time's the next Swan?
>>Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 19:37:19 -0300
>>
>>Dear David,Jerry and the List:
>>I have just performed my second Swan in this lifetime(the first being the
>>Swan Lake of Tsch) and would recommend that everyone who plays oboe/EH go
>>through this experience at least once in this musical lifetime.My opinion of
>>Sibeliuses music goes up higher and higher with every year as I get
>>older.Mozart and Gershwin were my beloveds in my teens,Brahms and Schumann
>>in my 20s,Mahler in my 30s ,Villa Lobos and Rachmaninoff in my 40s
>>,Stravinsky never,etc and as we go to "senior citizen :Sibelius.
>>Unfortunately back at Music and Art High School--my alma mater--I was
>>subjected by a tyrannical conductor to rehearsing not only Beethoven's 5th
>>but one of Sibeliuses more mundane(in my opinion) works:Finlandia for one
>>whole year,five times a week!
>>This abundance of Sibelius(and Beethoven) gave me the wrong idea about one
>>of the greatest composers of the 20th century.
>>The Swan and the Symponies of this great Finnish master hit something in my
>>gut and heart.
>>But I must warn "beginners"(like myself until today) to Sibeliuses
>>"Swan"that living and performing it for almost two weeks is a very difficult
>>and trying experience because the Swan is so sad,depressive(in Scandinavian
>>suicidial style),etc. I liken playing Sibeliuses Swan to an actor reciting
>>Hamlet. My temperament tries to be on the sunny side and this great work has
>>an effect.
>> But it is so lovely for an EH to play with strings.Wonder if the work has
>>ever been tried on the bassoon with strings(the arrangement says it can be
>>played by Eb alto sax or tp)?
>> For what I have learned here are my tips: (1)Get the piano reduction and
>>play from it.(Better memorize the piece and play it by heart!)
>>(2)Despite my own esteemed teacher's advice to "sit down,"I performed the
>>work standing ,nearby(on the side) of the conductor(a blonde Brazilian who
>>looks like a Viking descendant).I tried sitting in the orchestra and sitting
>>in front of the orchestrato play my Swan but came to the conclusion--thank
>>you Delmar for the suggestion--that for ME and my breathing and the
>>sound(everyone agreed) best was playing in front of the orchestra,standing.
>> (3)Practice at
>>home with the recording. This might be the most important moment of your
>>double reed career (and my first solo in front on the orch. on EH) but it's
>>only a small part of the program.(Our concert included the Sibeliuses 1st
>>and a Brazilian piano concerto). Nevertheless I did manage to get in five
>>short rehearsals with the last one being this morning at 9:30am prior to our
>>10":30am concert(German tradition:Sunday morning concert before lunch).
>> (4)Carry that
>>drying out spray can in your pocket and spritz the G key before going out
>>and bore. (We use heavy air conditioning and fortunately nothing gurgled but
>>the F# was getting wet by the end via water in the E key). English horns
>>also have other problems which are worrisome:will the reed fall off the
>>bocal, if I have to take apart the EH to clean it ,where will I put it,will
>>I lose my bocal,etc?
>> (5)Have 3-5
>>reeds prepared(I like both the Chudnow silver and gold eh tubes) and use
>>what is most comfy on the day of the concert
>> (6)The
>>triplets --the Swan's wings(?)--are not to be rush but played slowly and
>>calmly.(A member of the audience actually told me she saw a swan as I
>>played!)The high Bs,As and Cs are written ff but really it might be better
>>to hit them lightly and crescendo into them.Vibrato should be controlled or
>>otherwise you might sound like an old goat instead of a Swan!
>> (7)Courage,a
>>good yoga lesson,a tranquillizer or Rescue drops or whatever you use from
>>Beta blockers to passion fruit juice(maracuja in Brazil) and tranquility are
>>most important in the world for this work. Accustomed to playing oboe
>>concertos where technique is always the most important item, playing the
>>slow Swan is really a challenge.
>> Well there goes one Swan! What time 's the
>>next Swan?
>>
>>Rgds,
>>
>>Harold Emert
>>Rio-Brazil
>
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