Klarinet Archive - Posting 000977.txt from 1998/07

From: Craig Earl Countryman <cegc@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] 2nd Movement of Weber's Concerto No. 1
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:23:02 -0400

Roger Shilcock wrote:

> Craig:
> Your countryside story seems to fit the music, bu it says lots about your
> response to it and hardly anything about what the music is like.

I think when one aims to give a descriptive comparison to a topic such as music the
way to do that is by giving your response to the music and how each section makes you
feel -- what images it conjures up within your mind. Again, I wasn't sure of the
exact nature of the question, so I responded as best I could.

> Stravinsky is supposed to have that music was powerless to express
> anything at all; this is not quite to the point, but perhaps it's worth
> bearing in mind.
>

Do you mean to say: "Stravinsky is supposed to have SAID...."? That is what I take
you to mean, so correct me if I am wrong. Isn't it interesting that HE of all people
would say that considering that he wrote ballet music!! The roaring intensity of
"Petrouchka" in particular seems to express the tragedy that the title character
faces and how in the end his spirit rises to taunt the Blackamoor once again by the
recapitulation of the theme familiar to a lot of that work.

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