Klarinet Archive - Posting 000910.txt from 1999/09

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] re: 2025 Mozart
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 17:38:56 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.53
> Subj: [kl] re: 2025 Mozart

> The life cycle of almost any player's accomplishments hardly ever exceeds a
> century. I'm not speaking of Mozart, Beethoven, Saint-Saens, etc. but
> rather people life Hoffman and Nickish and others who were the creme de la
> creme in their epochs. Even, to a great degree, Liszt and Paganinni. For
> these men, we don't even have recorded performances to listen to any
> longer. So ask me about Marcellus in 2025 and we shall see.
> ======================================= Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> leeson@-----.edu =======================================
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> And that would make you how old then Dan?? ;)

I'd be pretty close to 100 by then. In the interim between the above
note and the receipt of this, I took out a recording of Charles
Draper playing the Brahms f minor. Now the record was made either in
the late 20s or the early 30s and the transferred of long playing
in the late 40s. It is very difficult to make a decision about his
playing and he was considered one of the greatest of English clarinet
players during his day. Yet the recording sounds stilted and awkward
to me.

I am not suggesting that, with the passage of time, our sensitivies
become more refined (or more refined than those of our predecessor
players) but rather the constant bombardment of music that players
undergo has an influence on how we hear things. To some extent,
I suspect that my view of Brahms f minor was influenced by Alban Berg,
Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Elvis Presley, though in a way that I
am unable to describe. So I hear Draper a good deal differently now
then I heard him in 1950 or so when I bought that recording, then
almost 30 years old.

>
> David Blumberg
> playit@-----.com
> http://www.mytempo.com
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