Klarinet Archive - Posting 001116.txt from 1998/10

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Weber Concerto number 2--Sabine Meyer & Charlie Neidich
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 19:13:01 -0500

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 GTGallant@-----.com wrote:
> Most players today have
> become stiffs and "orchestra drones" because they lack basic knowledge and
> insight on playing music.

Oboy......an attack on modern players......gee whiz....what will we all
do? Way to insult "most" players on the list......um....do you include
yourself with that comment by the way???

> So go ahead, play everything as writen, play ridiculously slow,
> and see if anyone outside the clarinet world listens!!!!!!

Now, if I read you correctly, you mean.....go ahead and play the printed
tempo for the Polacca and.........." Is that what you meant by
ridiculously slow?

Really........I don't hear a Polish dance to be as fast as one can play
evenly .......I hear it as a dance.....I wonder if Weber was thinking that
when he titled it Polacca?

Roger Garrett
IWU

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