Klarinet Archive - Posting 000440.txt from 1994/10

From: GILLMAN <E5305005@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Bad day...
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 14:29:00 -0500

>If that is true, we should see a consensus on this conference about who
>is the best clarinetist in the world right now. Everyone would likely
>be trying to emulate the playing style of that person. Why do you think
>we have not seen this consensus?
>
>-Nick-

I suppose I should have requoted my comment that sparked the preceding comment.
What I have suggested is that there is only one "best" in the world at any
given time. I in no way am suggesting that I know who this is, or am even in a
position to make that decision. Personally I feel that when you get past the
point of virtuoso, after that it has to be a judgement call of the individual
listener. I am not sure, I may have worded it improperly, but I was not in any
way suggesting that the "best" does not change on a monthly, weekly, hourly or
even smaller intervallic basis, simply that at any one time (second by second)
only one person can be the best at any given action. The thing I was trying to
suggest to Chris was that being the best in your school, the state, the
continent or the world is meaningless unless you are the best you can be at the
given time.

While I am at it, I would like to salute Mr. Leeson for making me laugh out
loud at his comments and distubing the patrons of the lab I work in. (I laugh
at the way you put things, not at the comments themselves. This time I am
referring to the post with the subject: Advertisements.) :^)

Luis Handal
Senior, Montclair State University
E5305005@-----.edu

   
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