Klarinet Archive - Posting 000880.txt from 2000/08

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: singing helps playing
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:20:59 -0400

On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 15:55:14 -0500, rgarrett@-----.edu said:

> At 09:27 PM 08/27/2000 +0100, you wrote:

> > Nevertheless, I have never got over hearing the version of West Side
> > Story, done by, among others, Jose Carreras and Kiri te Kawana.
> > This 'operatic' approach, dedicated to sustained line at the expense
> > of the words, as opera so often is, totally subverts the point of
> > the piece.
>
> This is an interesting statement. The version you describe was
> conducted and overseen by the composer of the music who, I assume, was
> aware of the point of the [music].
>
> > And these artists aren't stupid. How could they have produced such
> > a travesty? Bernstein himself, caught up in a stunt that he
> > probably wished he'd never begun, showed understandable irritation
> > during the film of the recording.
>
> This isn't true - I asked him personally about those recordings in
> 1987 after a concert in Ann Arbor, MI (where he conducted the Vienna
> Phil with the Mahler 5th symphony and the Mozart Clarinet Concerto)
> and he said they were among his favorite recordings. I am aware of
> the rumors surrounding those recordings, and I have a copy of the
> video of "the making of.....", but it wasn't a stunt, and I know from
> visiting with him that he didn't feel that way. Irritated?
> Yes......but only because Jose Carreras wouldn't respond to his passes
> at him!

Anyone with *any* understanding of style can recognise what is
unacceptable about these recordings, regardless of what Bernstein said
in informal conversation to you.

Tony
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