Klarinet Archive - Posting 000302.txt from 1996/04

From: "Scott D. Morrow" <SDM@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Dan and Michelangelo-WARNING:DIATRIBE!
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:22:02 -0400

>In practical orchestral reality, many (most?) conductors don't know
>(expletive bowdlerized here) excrement from shoe polish! When I played
>the K.622 in 1991, I had to insist that the Kalmus parts be replaced with
>Barenreiter (Neue Mozart Ausgabe). This year, I raised cane until our
>Firebird parts were at least corrected to match the McAllister score
>which is the corrected version (see Jonathan Cohler's post on this
>subject some months ago). In neither case did our conductor have a clue.
>Maybe in the theater it's different.
>
>David Niethamer

Unfortunately, it ISN'T different in theatre! Perhaps we should
qualify the statement as "the conductor/director SHOULD know what he or she
is doing!"

-Scott

Scott D. Morrow
Department of Biochemistry
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
(410)-955-3631

SDM@-----.edu

   
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