Klarinet Archive - Posting 000733.txt from 1995/05

From: Sal Lozano <Solzano@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: How High The Moon?
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 17:28:14 -0400

John Roman stated
...>I, myself, will often take the artistic licence of dropping extremely
high
>notes or phrases an octave if I feel it improves the performance.
>
>John Roman

Give me a break.....
How can you tell a musical director or a writer on a recording session when
they hear a playback of the performance you had an "artistic license"?
If they want it that way then your responsibility as a performer should be to
play it. Whether you get paid or not. Practice.
Sal Lozano