Klarinet Archive - Posting 000556.txt from 2000/11

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Triplets, Quads, Quins, sextuplets, Septs, Octs, and
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 01:02:17 -0500

Wow! Other than the animosity, I find myself almost agreeing!

Sincerely,
Roger Garrett

At 10:02 PM 11/15/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>I've been a professional clarinetist for over twenty yers,
>and have never seen such small minds...discussing the
>science of how to play groupings. I have in my inbox, well
>over two hundred email messages through The Klarinet email
>news and messaging which discuss the proper ways of playing
>the grouped notes. ...and I just signed up for this service
>last week!
>
>1) If you emailers would spend more time in the practice
>room, practicing those notes - as well as many others -
>you'd be better at them.
>
>2) If you conceptualize the groupings rather than making
>them a science, you would realize that many virtuosi do not
>play them evenly ANYWAY! If you listen to recordings of
>Karl Leister, Anthony Pay, and other artists like Eugene
>Rousseau, Larry Teal, Donald Sinta, Walter Chesnut, Yo Yo
>Ma, Vincent Abato, Phillip Farkas, and hundreds of others,
>you would be LEARNING instead of emailing.... ALL of these
>virtuosi play groupings INTERPRETIVELY, not literally....
>
>3) So get off your high horses and into the practice rooms,
>and stop trying to be musical journalists for some imaginary
>newspaper. If you like critiquing, then apply for the New
>York Times...not this emailing newsletter....
>
>Sincerely,
>Doug Benoit
>
>
>
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>Unsubscribe from Klarinet, e-mail: klarinet-unsubscribe@-----.org
>Subscribe to the Digest: klarinet-digest-subscribe@-----.org
>Additional commands: klarinet-help@-----.org
>Other problems: klarinet-owner@-----.org

Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, IWU Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Unsubscribe from Klarinet, e-mail: klarinet-unsubscribe@-----.org
Subscribe to the Digest: klarinet-digest-subscribe@-----.org
Additional commands: klarinet-help@-----.org
Other problems: klarinet-owner@-----.org