Klarinet Archive - Posting 000046.txt from 2000/08

From: Lacy Schroeder <LacyS@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Body movement
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:32:05 -0400

You could very well be right, Mr. President. :)

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From: Richard Bush [mailto:rbushidioglot@-----.com]
Subject: Re: [kl] Body movement

Or, another explanation for this lady's extreme body movement could be that
she
wishes, consciously or subconsciously, to draw attention to herself. If this
were the case, I would call it an extremely immature act.

Lacy Schroeder wrote:

> Bill Wright said:
>
> "As a member of the audience, I find body movements extremely (not
> just a little bit) distracting because they seldom are graceful or move
> towards completion -- as opposed to how true dance movements would
> appear."
>
> I agree, Bill. I was at Interlochen playing Mahler's 1st with James
DePreist
> and had the unfortunate duty of playing assistant principal to this girl
> from Juilliard who would dance around in her seat while she played. I not
> only found this extremely annoying (as a matter of fact, I wanted to yank
> her clarinet out of her hands and bludgeon her to death with it), but
> audience members also found it distracting. Several of my friends who were
> there to see the performance (including one of my conductors on the St
Louis
> Symphony conducting staff) asked me how I could stand to sit next to her
and
> commented on how annoying it was. As it were, I have listened to the
> recording of the performance, and she really *didn't* sound all that good,
> and it didn't help her playing (she squawked several times and her tone
> suffered, probably as a result of the extra movements). I think it was
like
> what someone else said on here: it was misguided nervous energy. But she
did
> it during rehearsals, too! How nervous can you get during a rehearsal?
Maybe
> she thought she was being particularly "artsy" by doing this. Who knows.
>
> Lacy S.

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