Klarinet Archive - Posting 000709.txt from 2000/11

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Interpreting versus playing
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:35:22 -0500

<><> Stravinsky wrote:
"The conflict of these two principles - execution and interpretation
- is at the root of all the errors, all the sins, all the
misunderstandings that interpose themselves between the musical work and
the listener and prevent a faithful transmission of its message."
[Stravinsky]

<><> David Niethamer wrote:
But that doesn't mean that I bring nothing of myself to the music.

During the few master classes that I've attended (Combs and Hasty
at ClarinetFest, Fred Ormond at the local music school), the
instructor's message has always been the same:

Learn and honor the history, and listen to world class musicians;
but in the end, you must make the music your own or it will sound phony.
You are playing for your own pleasure as well as for the audience's.
They don't want to hear you if you're not.
I don't want to sound like an boor or a cheat, but I cannot see
what the purpose of music is if not at least 50% for the player's own
pleasure. Perhaps that is heresy, but it's how I feel personally --
including practice.

Cheers,
Bill

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