Klarinet Archive - Posting 000839.txt from 2000/11

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Interpreting versus playing
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:45:47 -0500

On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 13:18:10 EST, LeliaLoban@-----.com said:

> A regular contributor referred to another as the type of person
>
> > Wickens, used to call "the great [bleep]ing unheard"
>
> and followed, a few posts later with,
>
> > Hold the metaposts, and comments about good manners, everyone. Deal
> > with the issues.
>
> Sorry to disobey a direct order, Sir, but, as another of the great
> bleeping unheard, I thought that one of the issues had to do with
> "look at me" behavior by performers, as a form of poor interpretation
> that distracts from the music -- sort of the way loading a message
> with dirty words and flaming distracts from the intellectual content.
>
> I use the bleeped word myself, in contexts where other people
> routinely use such language to the point where it's as meaningless as
> "you know" and "actually". However, the klarinet list is part of an
> educational site, and as such it is subject to the scrutiny of
> parents. Some of these parents use software filters that detect raw
> language, for the purpose of barring the kids from using "adult" sites
> or subscribing to "adult" lists. The parents probably don't want to
> bar their kids from educational sites like sneezy.org, but the
> software can't tell the difference. For that reason, I think people
> who care about keeping the klarinet list open to young music students
> will prefer to keep our language clean -- unless someone is so
> seriously disgruntled with this list that the objective is to trash
> it.
>
> Lelia

OK, Lelia.

I'm sorry.

Tony
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