Klarinet Archive - Posting 000775.txt from 2000/06

From: Feanor <feanor@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 20 Jun 2000 08:15:00 -0000 Issue 2338
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:47:41 -0400

>Do you have a trick to keep the tempo in Shostakovich 6. I usually look at
>the violins when they play pizzicato since all conductors I have played it
>with always wave ahead of the strings.

My trick is to play with the conductor. If he's so lousy that he can't keep
the orchestra together, than he deserves a mess, as do string players who
can't keep time with the wind solo. I'm sorry if this sounds jaded, but
I've worked with too many bad conductors who made playing music miserable
through their incompetance to want to save their asses any more.

Sean-two-weeks-from-a-conductorless-life-Osborn

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