Klarinet Archive - Posting 000392.txt from 1998/01

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: leister recording
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:02:50 -0500

Maybe it depends who brings the subject up....
Roger S.

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 10:02:19 +0000
> From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@-----.uk>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: leister recording
>
> > I don't know how U.S. pros behave, but I've found British pro players to
> > be exceedingly reticent about the negative qualities of fellow-pros -
> > sometimes even stomping on the conversation immediately a hint of
> > criticism
> > arises. Perhaps this is only when talking to amateurs like me, though.
>
> Whereas, in my rather limited experience of talking to pros, I have
> heard criticisms of other players' performance that were but thinly
> veiled. Since they tended to reinforce my views of other
> professionals' playing, there is perhaps another `special case' here.
>
> Whatever, I wouldn't care to repeat names either of criticiser or of
> criticised...
>
> Robin
>