Klarinet Archive - Posting 000538.txt from 1999/10

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Funny Nielsen recording
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:58:23 -0400

At 07:47 PM 10/18/1999 +0100, Michael Whight wrote:
>I am in agreement that performance is what is important and if you can get
>technical excellence all the better but the notion of a definative recording
>worries me. It suggests that somewhere out there is the perfect performance
>that cannot be bettered and that listening to anything else is a waste of
>time. Surely there is no one way of interpreting and that all performances
>have good things about them?To me the idea of capturing an interpretation
>and placing it on a pedestal is all wrong. I'll bet you anything that a lot
>of performers find it hard to listen to themselves on recording because they
>could always do it better/differently the next day. No wonder so many great
>artists want to re-record repertoire. Once a performance is over the artist
>has already moved on and has no desire to recreate the "definative" version.
>
I guess it depends upon how you use the term "definitive." I concur that
there can be more than one, and it would be a shame to stifle future
versions while holding slavishly to a previous "ideal." And movie actors
often claim that they cannot watch themselves on the screen. I know I
wince at every error in every recorded performance I have of myself. If I
could edit them out I would in a heartbeat!

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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