Klarinet Archive - Posting 001250.txt from 2000/10
From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Excess movement while playing & resting horn on knees.
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 06:28:48 -0400
At 12:19 AM 10/26/2000 -0400, Gene Nibbelin wrote:
>Klarinetters -
>
>Admittedly my playing experience is limited, but looking back to my student
>days and early and brief professional career, I believe that almost all
>oboists that I can recall seemed to be extremely "active" in swaying, and
>rhythmic bobbing and weaving, both with their bodies and their horns. I've
>also noticed this oboist tendency in televised orchestral performances. It
>is really most distracting to those musicians sitting near or within line of
>sight of such an oboist. My recent experience in our local non-professional
>orchestra brought this home to me again. The oboist is a very nice lady and
>a fairly good aspiring professional player, but sitting behind her really
>required the nth degree of concentration not to be totally distracted. (I'd
>like to blame some sloppy entrances on
>her bobbing and weaving - but that wouldn't be nice.)
>
>Am I being too hard on oboists and making an unjustified generalization, or
>have others noticed this same tendency towards "ballet" in oboists? (I
>don't mean to imply that clarinetists are not also guilty of this, and some
>violinists seem to be all over the stage - don't get close or you might get
>stabbed by an errant bow or decked by a bobbing head.)
I think they are really just writhing in agony because they cannot exhale!
Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
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