Klarinet Archive - Posting 000970.txt from 2000/05

From: SDSCHWAEG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Playing when ill
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 07:29:35 -0400

In a message dated 5/20/00 11:58:55 PM Central Daylight Time,
Tony@-----.uk writes:

<< Because I
know that the part of me that plays well is more independent of what I
think and feel than it seems to be, and that it's unwise to go looking
for enjoyment when as a matter of fact enjoyment isn't there.

Better to go for getting the job done. This is especially clear when
you feel bad for another reason than the fact of your performing,
because you can separate the two things.

But it's still true when the two are more closely connected.

Of course, when enjoyment is there, that's great! (You can still screw
up by starting to get too interested in enjoying yourself...;-) >>

Illness aside, I think it's true that we separate enjoyment, or emotionality,
from the fact of performing, to a degree. Of course we try to play
expressively, but, at least for me, that "feeling of expression" that arises
from the music is different from feeling my own emotions. Non-musician
friends have sometimes asked me about how I connect "feeling emotions" and
"playing with emotion," are are quite surprised when I tell them that the two
things aren't really connected at all - that is, I don't have to *be* happy
to play music that *sounds* happy, or makes them feel happy, or whatever. If
I do my job, the music conveys what it conveys, more or less independently of
my personal emotional state or whether I'm feeling under the weather -
though, of course, those things can color the performance. And, I have
certainly found it to be true that if I allow myself to *enjoy* the
performance too much while I'm performing, I invariably screw up! :)
Susan Schwaegler

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Subject: [donax-m] J.A.J. Faber

Dear all,
I am seeking information on J. Faber, the composer credited with being the
first to use the clarinet. I have searched the archives and would appreciate
any further information about the man and the first work (a mass I
believe)or where to start looking.
thanks
Brian Catchlove
Queensland Symphony Orchestra

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