Klarinet Archive - Posting 000065.txt from 2001/01

From: "Michel Chee" <michel_chicago@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Community bands and clarinets
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 20:13:34 -0500

I think the topic creates so much debate is because a lot of us were taught
that you had to run scale in order to warm up (or something like that).
Even now, 20 after I've had lessons, I can't separate 'technique' from
playing musically. I guess, my training was too regimented.

>From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Community bands and clarinets
>Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:09:29 -0800 (PST)
>
> <><> Teri Herel wrote:
>Well why in the world would you separate "technique" from "music"? I
>don't - it's all the same.
>
> HOORAY!! I've deleted Anne Satterfield's post in a similar vein,
>and therefore I can't quote it, but her post summarized: "When I sit
>down to play, I think about both at once. Neither one is sufficient,
>and each of them affects the other."
> What makes the ongoing debate so short-sighted (imo) is when people
>hope to play 'musically' without having sufficient technique, or to play
>'technically well' without musical feeling.
> I've never heard Neil's music, but I have heard some of Tony Pay's.
>To suggest that he emphasizes either technique or musicality is
>ridiculous. If he did, nobody would record him in the first place.
>Hopefully I would have the same response if I heard Neil's music.
> I don't understand why the topic creates so much argument.
>
>Cheers,
> Bill
>
>
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