Klarinet Archive - Posting 000336.txt from 1999/10
From: charette@-----.org
Subj: Re: [kl] Funny Nielsen recording
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 15:08:11 -0400
David Glenn wrote:
>Thanks for the info below. It puts a different light on it!
and addressed it to me. The thanks belong to Rick Custer for digging up the
references - all I did was reformat the postings slightly so they wouldn't
re-wrap strangely on your mail clients.
Cheers
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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:51:55 -0400
From: Anne Bell <bell@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [donax-m] not a lot of conversation
The lack of arguments is nice, but
>lets have some dialog! :)
OK,
Here's a question: Has anyone played Rrrrrrr (I think that is the correct number of R's) by Kagel? If so do you have any "lessons learned" or suggestions? I have a hard time saying no, so I'll be playing it. In public...
Thanks,
Anne
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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:04:33 -0500 (CDT)
From: Stephen Heinemann <sjh@-----.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910111351550.9866-100000@-----.edu>
Subject: [donax-m] "Music and wine are one."
Colleagues--
It'll be a stretch to regard the following as specifically clarinet-
related, except that it's in response (or echo) to Bill Edinger's e-mail
tagline seen frequently in the klarinet list: "'Music and wine are
one.'--Ralph Waldo Emerson." I wrote this a little over a year ago to
another listserve; hope you enjoy it. One of my oenophile cellist
friends, after reading it, yelled at me, "Beethoven is not a merlot!",
words that may or may not resonate with you.
Steve Heinemann
Bradley University
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I spent a couple of years in Seattle where, despite various distractions
such as grad school, I worked in the tasting room of a good winery. (Hey,
somebody has to do that work!) It was probably inevitable that the
music/wine connection would emerge.
Wine tasting is divided into different stages: the nose (often called the
bouquet or aroma), or taking in the scent; ingestion, as the wine is taken
into the mouth where it can be rolled from front to back to side to side,
as well as aerated by sucking in air while the wine is on the tongue; and
the finish, the taste that develops and is left when the wine is
swallowed. (Professional tasters have to make educated guesses about the
finish, since they don't--or aren't supposed to--swallow the wine.)
The taste changing that a sip of wine goes through is referred to as its
"complexity." In general, red wines are more complex than whites,
although some whites, especially well-made chardonnays, are more complex
than lighter reds such as gamay beaujolais; dry wines (those in which all
the sugar has fermented into alcohol) are more complex than off-dry and
dessert wines (those in which the fermentation has been stopped short,
leaving anywhere from 2% to 10% residual sugar).
A lot of people drink Chardonnay because it's attractive, famous, and has
a mellifluous name--in other words, they like it, but for all the wrong
reasons. The more knowledgable and/or fortunate drink it for its
complexity, reveling in the mix of flavors, acidity, and oak scent. (It
is the only white wine that is routinely aged in oak rather than stainless
steel, although some semillon and sauvignon [fume] blanc can handle the
barrel.) The good chardonnays are always identifiable immediately as
such, even though none of them tastes exactly like any of the others.
Cabernet sauvignon is the king of the red wines; there is more variety in
texture, quality, complexity, and taste sensations in cabernet than will
be found in any other grape.
Syrah is also a bit like cabernet, but more fruit to the taste--sort of
like merlot but with a more agreeable taste. (Not to be confused with the
more common petite sirah, a lighter, better known but inferior varietal.)
Merlot is like cabernet but not as varied; while a taster might think of
cabernet as having hints of anise, blackberry, tobacco, or a hundred other
flavors, merlot tends to taste like--grapes. Very, very good; some people
drink merlot to the exclusion of any other varietal, but for me, it's not
the wine to drink if either cabernet sauvignon or syrah is available.
Zinfandel is very much like merlot, a bit lighter yet more complex. Many
people are unaware that zinfandel is a red grape. So-called white
zinfandel is what you get when you short-circuit the wine-making process,
leaving out the grape skins, the oak barrel, the lees, everything that
makes zinfandel worth drinking. Not surprisingly, white zinfandel has
been, for over a decade, the most popular varietal in terms of sales.
Semillon is the underappreciated white wine--very flavorful, not as heavy
as chardonnay, much fuller in taste than the more popular sauvignon blanc.
Many people get nervous about drinking semillon for the first time,
perhaps because the name looks related to "salmonella."
Among the off-dry whites: Johannisberg Riesling is typically sweet,
light, not complex, a good fruit flavor, always inoffensive and popular.
Gewurtztraminer is like Riesling but much spicier. (A dry Gewurtztraminer
is hard to find but well worth the effort--same basic flavor to the grape,
but the sugar doesn't get in the way of the taste.) The Chenin Blanc grape
can be made into either a mediocre jug wine or a delicious Vouvray.
Now that I've completely telegraphed my point--
I would equate:
Mozart::chardonnay
Haydn::semillon
Bach::cabernet
Stravinsky::cabernet
Beethoven::merlot
Brahms::zinfandel
Bartok::syrah
Tchaikovsky::Johannisberg Riesling
Poulenc::chenin blanc
Glass::Gewurtztraminer
Reich::dry Gewurtztraminer
Any movie composer::white zinfandel
In the winery's store we sold, among many other items, T-shirts. One of
them said, "Life is too short to drink bad wine." Likewise, life is too
short to listen to bad music!
Steve Heinemann
Bradley University
sjh@-----.edu
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