Klarinet Archive - Posting 001372.txt from 2000/12

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Dirge for a Lame Duck at the Bird Refuge
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 16:51:07 -0500

<><> Dee wrote:
Good luck on a title search.

<big smile> Thank you, Dee. Last night was one of those "I can't
get to sleep" nights for me. I had no choice but to take myself and my
clarinet to the parking lot beside the hamburger stand. It astonished
me how much the music changed when I played it in a different
environment --- different lighting, different posture, chilly evening
air, different echoes, the threat that someone might actually approach
and listen (but they never do), and so forth.
So while I was there, I suddenly realized that "Parade" was the
word that I was searching for. I also recognized in myself the error
that poor writers frequently make --- they *tell* the reader what to
think instead of portraying behaviors and leaving the readers room to
create their own responses.

.....which sort of returns us to music and the debate about how a
composer should feel when his or her intent is not honored precisely,
doesn't it? There! I knew this post would be on topic somehow!

Thanks again,
Bill

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