Klarinet Archive - Posting 000372.txt from 1997/06

From: kathi@-----.com (Kathi Atkins)
Subj: Re: Mozart, K. 622: Oh No!! Not again...
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 23:19:09 -0400

Mel wrote:
<snip>
>My point is the player can't just play notes off the page. No matter how
>great the writer, it is up to the player himself to make the music
>beautiful by his own emotions, like an actor makes a character alive.
>This is what makes all music beautiful.
<snip>

I whole-heartedly agree with you Mel. And by the way I have always
consummately enjoyed listening to K622 **played with emotion**; however I
too have thought certain recordings to be boring, but when the player did
not perform expressively.

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