Klarinet Archive - Posting 000232.txt from 1996/02

From: Bill Fogle <bfogle@-----.EDU>
Subj: etudes, avoiding one's music
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 12:13:00 -0500

I dipped into a thread about Perier and technical etudes and it made me
think of how I respond to different etude books. I spend alot of time on
the opposite side of the room from Kells "Interpretive Studies"---because
of the overpowering shadow of Kell himself??? Jean-Jean (of whom I have
no reports, good or bad) I can open to anything (well, it seems like!)
and lose a happy half hour playing. Much of Baermann (described by Hite
in the preface to a collection of B. studies he edited as a sort of
"break" from Rose) I find intimidating. Or, at any rate, frustrating.
Rose comes much easier.

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Bill Fogle
Washington, DC
bfogle@-----.edu
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