Klarinet Archive - Posting 000587.txt from 1998/01

From: Matthew Snyder <msnyder@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Matt Snyder and vibrato
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:04:05 -0500

At 05:16 AM 1/12/98 EST, you wrote:
>I very much enjoyed reading Matt's comments about vibrato and I
>have little disagreement with what he said, though there are two
>areas in which I want to do a little poking.
>
>First, one of Matt's reasons for thinking the way he does is
>that "it feels correct."

Sorry Dan, but you completely misunderstood the context of my comment. I
indeed said the following:

>I never heard the
>theory about vibrato being a "black thing" before, but it is very
>intriguing and feels correct, considering that the prejudice against
>vibrato appears to have originated not long after jazz itself did.

As you can see, I was not talking about vibrato "feeling correct." Rather,
I am talking about Jonathan Cohler's proposition that a possible reason for
vibrato's falling out of fashion among classical players early in this
century was that it was highly in favor in the new music emerging from New
Orleans and the rest of the jazz world. It was this theory that "feels
correct" to me, not vibrato itself. That, as Jonathan makes pains to point
out in his piece, is subjective.

I would highly recommend that anyone reading this thread go back to
Jonathan Cohler's piece on vibrato on The Clarinet Pages website, because
that's what I was responding to in the first place, and I can already see
material that was well-covered and laid to rest in that article being dug
up anew.

Matt Snyder
msnyder@-----.net

http://www.interactive.net/~msnyder
The Clarinet In Jazz Since 1945
Various Writings On Jazz