Klarinet Archive - Posting 001015.txt from 2000/06

From: "Alf Hörberg" <alf.horberg@-----.se>
Subj: SV: [kl] Conductors--Rant; Marcellus's Mozart Concerto
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 21:50:45 -0400

I wrote:
> >> My opinion is that it (Mozart) should not be performed by anybody who
haven't
> >reached
> >> the musical maturity that it deserves just because it's relatively
> >> technically easy.

Than David wrote:
I have to disagree with this approach. It seems to me like waiting to buy
> a computer until you've got the "latest and greatest". If you do that,
> you'll never buy one, because you know that two weeks later (if that!) it
> will be surpassed and obsolete. When will any of us be "ready" to play K.
> 622?

If I change the statement:
My opinion is that the Francaix concerto should not be performed by anybody
who haven't
reached
the technical maturity that it deserves just because it's relatively
musically easy.

Is this a more correct statement or is this also wrong?

What I criticize is that technical abilities are very often favored before
musical. Technique is easy to measure. Musicality is more a matter of
honesty to yourself and the audience and to the art itself. I have met
professional performers who admit that they have no deeper understanding of
Mozart's music. Still they perform it. They are just doing "their own
thing". This "Knocking off Mozart for the 150th time is easy
money"-mentality. Pardon me , but I don't like this approach. I'm not
necessarily saying that everybody should perform Mozart in a "correct"
stylistic way as long as they are in a personnal symbiosis with the music
and can stand up for what they are doing.
This does of cause not apply on a student level when you have to be allowed
to try your wings many times. I'm only talking about professional
performances.

Alf
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