Klarinet Archive - Posting 000771.txt from 1999/09

From: "Curtis Nelson" <curtisnel@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Impresive ?
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:54:56 -0400

>From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Impresive ?
>Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:40:33 -0500 (CDT)
>
>On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Sherry Katz wrote:
>
> > Sheesh! Lighten up. I play music for fun. I don't make my living at
> > it. I don't treat it like a job. Most people who play instruments
> > play them for fun. A number of people on this list are entirely too
> > pompous in their attitude toward playing music.
>
>Does that mean that if we learn to play better we won't have as much fun?
>
>Ed Lacy
>el2@-----.edu
>
>
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I once heard an interview of George Solti in which he was asked what he
learned most from studying with Toscanini. His reply was, "The life and
death seriousness of music."
For those of us who study it, music can be fun, but we don't like the idea
of its being trivial.

In my opinion.

Curtis Nelson

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