Klarinet Archive - Posting 000610.txt from 1997/10

From: Frankie Kelly <fkelly@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Further comments -
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 22:52:08 -0400

I appreciate your comments about Daphnis. I only wish more people thought
as you think.....

Dr. Frankie J. Kelly
Southeastern Louisiana UniversityAt 10:46 AM 10/14/97 -0700, you wrote:
>My comments about technique can be summed up as follows: A
>clarinetist once told me that he spent 8 years at least an hour a day
>trying to perfect Daphnis (my favorite example this week!) for orchestra
>auditions. How ridiculous! Correct me if I'm wrong (especially Dan) but
>the intention of that excerpt in my mind is to present a "wave" of
>continuous sound without regard to individual notes. Indeed, one does
>not want to hear the individual notes because it destroys the effect.
>Thus, why is that used as an "eliminator" in orchestra auditions?
>Because its convenient. Playing every note in that excerpt does not a
>musician make.
>
>As to the comment, "it is possible to take a great technician with no
>musical sense and develop a fully professionally capable player," how
>sad that this is our standard of music today. Justifies my comments
>completely.
>
>And finally, to respond to Gary whose "pithy" reply really deserves no
>more than silence, my short list of "musicians" (as if I have to prove my
>comments):
>
>Robert Wojciak
>Leon Russianoff
>Itzhak Perlman
>Eddie Daniels
>Hans Rudolf Stadler
>Rachmaninoff
>Oscar Peterson
>Anne Sophie Mutter
>Eliane Elias
>Eric Dolphy
>sitting in the very last row in Carnegie Hall listening to Chicago and Solti
>play Mahler 9
>and many more I can't think of right now -
>
>
>