Klarinet Archive - Posting 000679.txt from 2000/05

From: klar-Ann-ette H Satterfield <klarann@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Related to...Bass Clarinet, Transpositions
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 00:32:10 -0400

On Sat, 13 May 2000 22:58:01 +0100 Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
writes:

> Good and committed classical musicians in fact tend to play
> jazz-oriented compositions with too much rather than too little
> enthusiasm, I'd say. The difficulty is to have nuances like 'swing'
be
> just a part of the style, rather than being a surface feature.
Because
> we're not used to doing it, swing comes out like a surface feature,
and
> thus sounds too meaningful and inhabited.
>
This is a very important point!
The difference in superficial and inherent.

(This applies ALSO to the various orchestra & chamber music 'styles'.)

I had a strong interest in jazz, and liked listening and (trying) to play
long before i grew to appreciate and enjoy, let alone begin playing
orchestra music.
I doubled with alto sax, and played jazz band in high school and college,
so i have good background for evaluating 'crossover' musicians.

One of the reasons that i am very impressed by musicianship and playing
of a *local* clarinetist, Brian Moorhead, who plays principal in the
Florida Orchestra (Tampa, St.Pete, Clearwater, FL) I cannot tell from
listening when he plays relevant passages that he has never doubled sax
and played in a fine jazz ensemble He gets the heart and the soul of the
style because he has liked and listened to good jazz.
Other wind players in the orchestra are not ignorant of the feel, but
don't have the same authority and comfort.

And I remember hearing a tv broadcast of Andre Previn playing Rhapsody in
Blue, who brought a strong bebop slant on the piece. Not the way Gershwin
had played ( Bebop developed after Gershwin died,) but Previn was of
course very experienced with the modern styles, and he let Gershwin speak
powerfully with that bebop accent.

There are good musicians who aren't competent with, to use yet another
set of terms, improvised and written music.
But the musicians who do both, are among the most satisfying of all.

annhall

~~~Ann Satterfield~~~
clarinetist and teacher
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