Klarinet Archive - Posting 001307.txt from 1999/03

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fred Jackobowitz' coments about Schifrin's playing
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:53:49 -0500

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.86
> Subj: Re: [kl] Fred Jackobowitz' coments about Schifrin's playing

> On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
>
> > The last thing that is expected from a performer should be a
> > duplication of what is written in the score. That's paradoxical. The
> > performer has to think of himself/herself as a painter who has been
> > given an incomplete canvas, one on which a certain basic picture
> > architecture has been placed there by the original artist, the
> > composer. It is the performer's duty to complete the canvas in a
> > highly personalized way.
>
> So, Dan, as a part of this individualized interpretation, should the
> clarinetist also exercise his/her discretion in choosing the instrument on
> which he/she will play? Is it OK to choose Yamaha or LeBlanc or Selmer
> instead of Buffet, if that is what the players musical sensibilities
> dictate? And, does the player have free choice of which mouthpiece and
> reed to use? And finally, can the player choose the key of the
> instrument, for example, A or Bb clarinet according to his/her concept of
> tone?
>
> (I know I'm not fooling you - I was trying to sneak up on you. But, it's
> a serious question, and I'll be interested in reading your response.)

Ed, please don't lay traps for me. If you disagree, that's OK. I'll
live with it. But I will not be sucked into this dialogue.

>
> Ed Lacy
> el2@-----.edu
>
>
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