Klarinet Archive - Posting 000414.txt from 1999/09

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] tonguing (long)
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:08:48 -0400

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:23:05 EDT, LeliaLoban@-----.com said:

> Evidently you haven't "overthought" to the point of blocking your
> ability to play: an object lesson in itself.

It was in fact the other way around. Though I was a bit precocious --
something that isn't a specially good indicator of whether or not a
player will be ultimately interesting, because there are examples both
ways -- I always struggled with staccato.

At the age of 16 I played the Mozart concerto 6 times in Germany, Russia
and Scandinavia with the British National Youth Orchestra, and I
remember that the descending dominant 7th arpeggio from G'' to G in the
13th(!) bar of the solo part always held a particular terror. I can't
now imagine why someone didn't suggest that I play it legato, if it
bothered me. (Probably because I resisted being told what to do even at
that early age.)

It took a further 7 years, by which time I already had a job in the RPO,
for me to understand what I was doing wrong, and to figure out tactics
for approaching the general problem of fast, secure staccato. That bit
of the Mozart had fortunately yielded earlier. And by that time the
problem had considerable psychological dimensions, as you can imagine.

So what I wrote had some personal history attached.

I'm glad you enjoyed the article. Thank you for your kind comments.

Tony
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