Klarinet Archive - Posting 000766.txt from 2000/02

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Thought du jour
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:59:58 -0500

At 12:41 AM 2/20/2000 +0100, Rien Stein wrote:
>Dear Avraham
>
>Of course I do not know with what intention you put your last message onto
>the list. Of course if you mean that many people lay a cd in their player,
>or switch on the radio, just to have kind of a wallpaper of sound, to drive
>away an obviously unbearable silence - well, let them do so. If you mean
>listening to music is an activity far inferior to producing that kind of
>noise, I do not agree...
>
I got an ENTIRELY different meaning from Avraham's posting. I saw it a
lamenting the fact that the standard set by today's recorded music (near
perfection, what with professional players and digital editing) DISCOURAGES
people from making the music THEMSELVES, even if the result is somewhat
less than perfect. Listening to recordings is marvelous, but not as
fulfilling as making the music yourself. We who continue to play in spite
of our imperfections realize this, the flute player who quit because she
was not "good enough" did not. As the writer asked, "Good enough for
what?" I answer you only need to be good enough to have fun yourself, to
give others pleasure, to stimulate the brain cells, etc., to have a good
reason to keep playing. And the standard to achieve those ends can be
considerably lower than what we hear on most recordings. Recordings can
still serve as examples and goals for our own playing, as well as being
enjoyed on their own considerable merits.

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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