Klarinet Archive - Posting 000298.txt from 2000/06

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pat Metheny interview regarding Kenny G.
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 11:49:09 -0400

Tony Wakefield wrote:

>I whole-heartedly agree with Pat, and I (for one), am grateful to Roger for
>posting this.

For those who were asking, "Who is Pat Metheny?": He's a guitarist with many
very popular recordings. I'd say his music floats somewhere between jazz and
"new age". I thought his outburst was intolerant and bitter.

Tony Wakefield also wrote:

>Secondly, the music, i.e. the
>composition. I would much prefer to listen to a poor composition played
>beautifully - good technique/good tone etc. than the other way round. The
>aesthetics, the moment of being <able> to appreciate that another human
>being is pouring his <heart> out for me overrides all other <new age
>appreciation/criticism>. It is the inability to appreciate this, in this new
>age/modern/20th cent - call it what you like, which is the evasive
>ingredient lacking in today`s music production/performing/recording etc.

Amen to that. That inability is also leading to a great over-emphasis on
recordings. I can't understand why people want to listen to the same performance
over and over, and miss out on the excitement of a real live performance where
"another human being is pouring his <heart> out for me".

--Doug
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Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears

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