Klarinet Archive - Posting 000401.txt from 1996/04

From: "Daniel A. Paprocki" <dap@-----.US>
Subj: Re: Performance Lattitude
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 23:08:26 -0400

Jonathan,
What if you can not attain the composers posted speed limit?
Should a performer be restricted from that piece? What about a student?
Don't perform this until 144 to the quarter is reached! I hope not. I've
heard clarinetists do the Stravinsky Three Pieces below, above, and right
on the reccomended tempo. Are those players not at 168 or 160 are in
violation of the composers wishes? How many of us have an infallible
internal metronome that can hit a specific tempo right on? I will always
try to meet the composers wishes but sometimes I just physically can't go
that fast or can't tongue that fast. Who's to say that the day the
composer set the metronome marks his metronome needed a new battery or
winding? Or the printer marked 160=quarter note instead of 160=eighth note?
I think what is needed is a genuine commitment to "try" and achieve the
composers intent not "either play it exactly at this speed or not at all."

Dan

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Daniel A. Paprocki
dap@-----.us

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