Klarinet Archive - Posting 000804.txt from 1999/10

From: David Renaud <studiorenaud@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: no apology
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 05:03:37 -0400

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Nancy Buckman wrote:

> I give up. What's the answer?

The source..... it hit a nerve .....Responses were requested off the
list. Sanction 2: Applaud the performance enough not to draw attention to
oneself,> but later, foment reprisals against those responsible.
> Appropriate for: grossly offensive conduct by the performer(s) in situations
> where open dissent would endanger the audience.
> Example (hypothetical): In Nazi Germany, by way of introducing the music,
> the conductor reads aloud from Richard Wagner's anti-Semetic screeds,
> expresses agreement with them and boasts that there are no Jews or non-whites
> in his orchestra.

Applause, appropriate?????
Dangerous to mix politics and art isn't it.

How can this relate.......?.

Has anyone in the working clarinet world had difficulty
will the imposition of unjust politics on our art? Perhaps
in the pit, accompanying some theater display that really
hit a nerve? Is it professional to accompany anything
and everything regardless of the content.

Cheers
Dave Renaud

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