Klarinet Archive - Posting 000697.txt from 1999/03

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Sabine Meyer's Stamitz
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 02:51:56 -0500

On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
> Chris, this is where you have to have iron balls. The matter of
> performance practice and style issues is not very well developed
> in todays clarinet world. While our educational system turns out
> magnificently fluid performers, we do not turn out players who
> understand or have studied style issues. And that may be the state
> of the people who are telling you to go listen to a CD.

But many of the CD's available represent the correct style. Let's face
it, the majority of people who audition play out of rhythm, with average
tone, technique, articulation, and not an ounce of creative, intelligently
worked out interpretations. What is left but to suggest someone listen to
a particular CD??

> When told that, you have to be prepared to be polite and rip out
> the throat of the person who suggested that. But nicely or s/he
> will become angry and think you are unworthy.

I absolutely agree with the above.

> It is not enough to want to do it differently. You have to be
> very well prepared to go over why you want to do it in a certain way.
> It is not enough to be an iconoclast. You have to be a very well
> educated iconoclast.

A wise and altruistic suggestion. I wholeheartedly agree!
Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director - Concert Band, Symphonic Winds & Titan Band
Advisor - Recording Studio
Illinois Wesleyan University

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