Klarinet Archive - Posting 001103.txt from 1998/10

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Weber Concerto number 2--Sabine Meyer & Charlie Neidich
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:36:25 -0500

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From: Kevin Fay (LCA) <kevinfay@-----.com>
Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 11:01 AM
Subject: RE: [kl] Weber Concerto number 2--Sabine Meyer & Charlie Neidich

>I don't get it . . . Weber too fast? Destroys the music? Puh-lease. There
>are great, deep works in the literature. This is not one of them. Lighten
>up!
>
>Weber's clarinet stuff was written as cheap pot-boiler opera, a showpiece
>for the virtuoso, created for the sole purpose of dazzling the audience.
>It's not--and was never intended to be--"great serious music." That
Charlie
>tongues the last page would have met with both Weber's and Baermann's
>approval (and probably a standing ovation).
>
>kjf

Shakespeare's plays were also pot boilers for the purpose of entertaining
the masses and making money.

However it does not negate the fact that despite their original purposes of
pleasing and impressing people, both the playwright and composer created
works of art.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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