Klarinet Archive - Posting 000077.txt from 1997/11

From: "Arthur Teen" <arthurteen@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Ricardo Morales Recital
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 11:28:33 -0500

There are flaws in Spielberg and Lucas films but they don't cloud my
vision and cause me to miss the whole show!

Artie

>From: fsheim@-----.com
>Subject: Ricardo Morales Recital
>Sender: owner-klarinet@-----.us

>Jennifer, believe me, I am qualified to give my own subjective feelings
>about a performance. For me to agree with Mr. Morales' interpretation
>solely because of his stature in the musical world and the assumption
that
>he cannot do anything wrong would, for me, be mindless idol worship.
And,
>as I pointed out before, the character of a work can be enormously
changed
>by a slight variation in tempo. Pick the one you like. I chose mine.
>
><snip>
><As for missed soft
>tones, etc... reed players' lives depend on those stubborn chunks of
wood
>and how they will react from one situation or one minute to the next.
No
>one has control over everything!>
>
>Of course I understand about reeds, but for whatever reason, I believe
that
>at Mr. Morales' level, it just shouldn't happen. As I said in my
initial
>post, something seemed wrong with his reed- it seemed too hard as it
had an
>airy undertone. Can anybody comment on that?
>
>
>Fred (fsheim@-----.com)
>
>

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