Klarinet Archive - Posting 001118.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 19:47:53 -0500

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From: Patticlar@-----.com>
Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Weber Concerto number 2--Sabine Meyer & Charlie Neidich

>I too feel that we treat our music as if it were a sacred text, without
>allowing for interpretation. As one who has worked with composer, I know
that
>there is a latitude most will give the performer. After all not every "jot
>and tittle," can be notated. Further there is such a thing as printing
errors
>which in the original "Urtext'" can become standardized for us a hundred
years
>later. I feel strongly that as a performer, one must endeavor to follow
the
>composers intentions. However, there is latitude for ones own expressive
>interpretation.

I repeat that "Alla Polacca" does not translate to "Presto" or "Prestissimo"
or "Allegro". It is hardly a printing error. Yes the player must interpret
as music is a performing art. Marks on a piece of paper are not music and
don't become music until it is played. I do not intend to imply that the
printed music is a "holy text" to be followed literally for, as you say, not
everything can be written down. But this drastic a difference in tempo is
hardly reasonable artistic interpretation, particularly when the composer
has marked his intent.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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