Klarinet Archive - Posting 000198.txt from 1997/06

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Improvisation (2)
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 21:25:57 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.11
> Subj: Re: Improvisation (2)

> It's been interesting to follow the discussion regarding improvisation.
> I must disagree with the comment of being foolish to improvise on tunes
> one has never heard. Although I do not improvise, a situation that I
> hope to remedy in the future, I am a huge fan of dixieland music. I
> witnessed several "fools" at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee performing
> songs that they had never heard previously. And they did a darn good
> job of it.
>
> Margaret

Margaret, it may very well be that the greater simplicity of Dixieland
Tunes can allow one to join in without every having heard the music
before, but in the case of a work like K. 622, I find it difficult
to accept that an attempt at improvisation without a firm understanding
of the conception will be successful. And in the case of a concerto
with a cadenza, which neither the concerto nor the quintet, K. 581
have, it would be an enormous impediment. But, notwithstanding
that, if you have heard it done, I accept what you say without
skepticism.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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