Klarinet Archive - Posting 000809.txt from 1998/03

From: RCLARINET <RCLARINET@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Re: Re: Ricardo Morales -Nielsen
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 11:43:57 -0500

On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, RCLARINET wrote:

>> Neil wrote further:

>> I remember his opening recital at ClarinetFest '95 in Arizona. I wasn't
>> even mildly thrilled with the quality of his tone, but his musicianship
>> is so Herculean, it was all I could think about.
I WROTE:
> I really have to take Issue with you , Neil, about Ricardo's tone. It
> is a very lovely sound, very well centered, even and dark, a virtually
> faultless legato and coloristically and dynamically he seems to have
> terrific control.
NEIL RESPONDED:
This is the silliest thing I've seen in a while. You're taking issue
with how I feel about Ricardo Morales' tone?

No, Neil, I wasn't taking issue about how you "feel" about Ricardo's tone. I
was taking issue with your negative statements about his tone in the above
passage and the passage prior to that in the same posting where you called his
tone on the Nielsen something like "fair to crappy" -----I can't quite
recalled the precise wording. ( I also have a recording of that performance
and his sound was fine).
I merely responded to your comments by stating that I thought his tone was
very find indeed (as his control is MOST of the time), and then I briefly set
out an objective criteria by which I judged his tone. Now that may be the
silliest thing you ever heard, but some how I miss the sillieness. I
certainly was not making any personal attack on you, or saying what you said
was silly or stupid, but simply sharing another view and giving some support
reasoning for why I held that view.
That is allowed here? Is it not?
tom