Klarinet Archive - Posting 000993.txt from 1998/07

From: "Mary Sotnik" <marys@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] 2nd Movement of Weber's Concerto No. 1
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 19:34:00 -0400

>> 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.
>>
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>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.

But if you were listening to the music, especially if it didn't have a
ballet attached,
you couldn't ever definitely say what Stravinsky had meant to express by it.
You would still have an emotional response to it & if you were imaginative
you might
well think of pictures to go with it, though you couldn't know if they were
the same
as Stravinsky's (if he had any) *just* by listening to the music. (On the
other hand, I
don't know what else you'd do to give a descriptive comparison of Weber's CC
no. 1
*except* say what it'd made you think of?)
Mary

didn't know what it was meant to express,
you couldn't say
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