Klarinet Archive - Posting 000649.txt from 1997/02

From: paolo ravaglia <peval@-----.IT>
Subj: Male, female players & Third world war
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 01:57:38 -0500

Please people,
don't be too angry with me.
BIG MISUNDERSTANDING
You answered to me with too much anger (mind it!!)
It's no sexism, at all.

I really admire all women playing clarinet professionally.
I had some women studying with me and I had to work often hardly
to correct their breathing habits. All this in order to change the
"center" (baricentro) of sound from the upper to the lowest part of the
breast (polmoni). Of course it was
not a physical problem but a sum of several and different things.
Male & female player CAN have the same problems.
Maybe a strong charachter (carattere) and personality can help anyone (male
or female) improving colour and quality of sound.
In order to achieve this, many factors can contribute: psycological,
musical, BUT NOT
physical.
I spoke of HABITS.

"Pace e bene" (S. Francesco d'Assisi)

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"Too much anger, a bit of fault"
(Anonymous - 900 b.C.)
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Paolo Ravaglia Roma Italy
Alter Ego Contemporary Music Ensemble
Conservatorio "G. Frescobaldi"
of FERRARA clarinet main teacher
peval@-----.it
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"It's much better to spend 30 hours on one
tune than to play 30 tunes in one hour"
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