Klarinet Archive - Posting 000069.txt from 2001/01

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Technique and Musicality
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 20:13:38 -0500

As I was catching up on reading both Klarinet and magazines, the paragraph
excerpted below jumped out at me. In the Oct. 9 New Yorker, Alex Ross, the
magazine's music critic, wrote, "The American orchestra errs on the side of
caution. The house style is: No mistakes. ... String players ... tend to
strive for absolute uniformity of rhythm and correctness of pitch. The result
is a sound that is technically brilliant but emotionally distant. American
orchestral musicians are famous for sneering at conductors who talk about
meaning and expression rather than the B-flat three bars before C. Then they
wonder why their audience is made up of sleepy dentists."

--Doug
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Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears

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