Klarinet Archive - Posting 000090.txt from 1993/11

From: 00smgeidel@-----.BITNET
Subj: Re: OK!! I'm ready.
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 08:21:32 -0500

Greetings to all...

Dan Leeson has offered the following for discussion...

>>My interest is in repertoire and performance issues. How does one
>>play Mozart's clarinet music in a way that is compatible with
>>the way it was performed during his lifetime, for example?

I have always been puzzled by the high amount of interest in "authentic"
performances on "authentic" instruments. My perspective differs; I see creative
geniuses of the caliber of Mozart as people who likely were fascinated by
beauty, imagination--as people who admired the new, different, and exciting in
art. I believe Mozart would be captivated by ** ANY ** performance of his music
on ** ANY ** instruments that captures beauty and imagination--even if it
was cast in a twentieth century sonority with twentieth century instruments by
players who employ current trends in musical expression. The richness of
Mozart's music surely is greater than any one mode of expression; it is music
for all time, and for all sensibilities, then and now.

Comments?

Stan Geidel

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Dr. Stanley M. Geidel
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