Klarinet Archive - Posting 000851.txt from 2000/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Interpreting versus playing
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:45:59 -0500

At 04:15 AM 11/27/2000 EST, Stephanie Davis wrote:
>It's never occurred to me to be disturbed by the physical movement of a
>musician. The use of -- or lack of -- physical movement is completely an
>intimate thing between a musician and her/his music. A musician might be so
>"into" the music that s/he *must* move to it, and I fail to see what this
>would have to do with the quality of the playing. The quality should stand
>on its own.
>
I recently attended a concert in which Richard Stolzman played the Copland
Concerto. While he moved around quite a bit, it appeared genuine -- an
expression of how he was not just playing but playing WITH the music, and a
exhortation to the audience to share his enjoyment. It was effective in
this case, but it might not work nearly as well in, say, the Mozart
concerto, and might be downright out of place in a chamber work.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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