Klarinet Archive - Posting 000683.txt from 1998/01

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: A vibrato experiment
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 17:24:37 -0500

On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Jonathan Cohler wrote:
> I have done this experiment hundreds of times in masterclasses (where I ask
> the entire audience), in lessons, and in casual demonstrations.
>
> In EVERY case, people have preferred the vibrato version. Without
> exception. I do not remember a single instance in which someone said they
> preferred the vibrato-less version.
>
> As you did, I do not tell them what is different up front. And in many
> cases, as you point out, they do not recognize that it is, in fact, the use
> of vibrato that makes the passage come alive.
>
> This would be a great topic for a master's thesis.

I have had great success with this as well. However, there is a CD of
Concertino - C.M. von Weber out with a MAJOR recording artist (who I will
not name) whose vibrato was the exception in the demonstration. The
audience did NOT prefer the performance.....even though in all other ways
it was exceptional!

Roger Garrett
IWU