Klarinet Archive - Posting 000864.txt from 2000/11

From: Sterkel Terrance-W15462 <T.Sterkel@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Interpreting versus playing
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:55:13 -0500

which reminds me of a recent University Orchestra Performance.
The director used the same wild gyrations for the pastoral,
the requiem, and the Sousa. Hair jerking back and forth, and
the baton flying within 1/2 inch of the left eye then over the brow.
Needless to say, intermission was taken up with nearly no discussion
of the performance, except the one at the podium....

: -----Original Message-----
: From: Lacy, Edwin [mailto:el2@-----.edu]
: Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 11:38 AM
: To: 'klarinet@-----.org'
: Subject: RE: [kl] Interpreting versus playing
:
:
: > 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.
:
: There seem to me to be two separate issues where the motions
: of a performer
: would have an effect on a musical performance. First, in a live
: performance, we cannot completely divorce the visual element
: from the aural
: one. If the motions of a performer seem to have little if
: anything to do
: with the musical effect, that can be very distracting to the
: listeners/observers. Second, excessive movement actually can
: detract from a
: performers ability to play at the highest level of which they
: are capable.
: If the brain is occupied in sending numerous neural signals
: to the muscles
: which are controlling the choreography, that detracts from
: its ability to
: control and send the signals which are necessary for musical
: performance.
:
: Ed Lacy
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