Klarinet Archive - Posting 000676.txt from 1999/03

From: Bill Baker <bill_chris@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Sabine Meyer's Stamitz
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 21:20:56 -0500

It doesn't help that having your own style is discouraged. Anytime I play
for a teacher or for competition, if I play it the way the other person
wouldn't, they tell me to go listen to a CD.

Chris

At 13:52 3/11/99 , you wrote:
>> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.48
>> Subj: RE: [kl] Sabine Meyer's Stamitz
>
>> It's already happening. Early 20th C. style was very different from today
>> and there are individuals that are investigating that style!
>>
>> As an aside, the development of recorded sound has resulted in a great
>> decrease in performance variation. A certain sameness has crept into the
>> interpretation of music. So one day, there may not be a different style to
>> investigate. Our loss.
>
>Very, very observant point. In my own case I find this so true that I
>no longer buy recordings of 18th century solo clarinet music because
>every performance has the character of every other performance. Outside
>of sound character, there is little to distinguish Sabine Meyer's
>performance of K. 622 from that of Frank Cohen's. And in the case of
>players as great as these, even sound character is difficult to
>identify absolutely. While both performer's execute that work with
>equal facility, the thing that should permit each artist to create an
>absolutly unique performance has been eliminated from 20th century
>playing habits. So to me, they all sound the same. And it is equally
>true in live performances of this epoch's music, too.
>
>In effect, I suggest that the fragile character of music generally
>referred to as "classical" (meaning a rough time period) has been
>poorly treated by contemporary players and has been poorly treated
>since about 1840.
>
>
>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kate Alexander [mailto:blanerne@-----.au]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 5:49 PM
>> To: klarinet@-----.org
>> Subject: Re: [kl] Sabine Meyer's Stamitz
>>
>>
>> and yet in 100 years time SABINEs performance will be the correct
>> performance style of today .... so will performers be discussing how to
>> correctly play HIP of the 20th century???
>> Vivace
>>
>>
>>
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