Klarinet Archive - Posting 000438.txt from 1995/10

From: John Roman <JohnARoman@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Weber Concertino
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 01:33:34 -0400

On Tue, Oct 17, Nate wrote:

<<How fast do you guys play the C.M. von Weber Concertino? I have a recording
of Charles Neidich and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra playing it one tempo,
but a clarinet major at Carnegie Mellon plays it much slower. Now I'm trying
to figure out how fast to take it, particularly the second and third
sections. Quarter note = ????>>

This may seem like an oversimplification, but any tempi you use (within
reason) that please your artistic sensibilities will be correct. I've
always felt that you need to play the music to please yourself and let the
audience participate in your enjoyment of the music. Recordings of most
pieces tend to vary in tempo to a degree, even recordings of the same piece
by the same musician and recorded at different times. It probably has to do
with mood swings or some such.

BTW, anyone who has ever listened to early recordings made by the original
Sousa band performing von Suppe overtures for a technology that permitted a
finite time in which to complete the recording has really had their eyes
opened on the subject of tempo :-)

John Roman

   
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