Klarinet Archive - Posting 000077.txt from 2001/01

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: RE: [kl] Technique and Musicality
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 20:13:45 -0500

At 02:49 PM 01/02/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Musicians want only one thing from a conductor, and that is for the
>conductor to make it possible for them to play as well as they are able.
>Most accomplished orchestral musicians don't need any lectures from
>conductors about the "meaning and expression" of the music. Too many
>conductors have adequately demonstrated that they know little about the
>meaning of music, and less about its technical aspects. A conductor could
>talk about the music until both he/she and all the players were blue in the
>face, and none of that theorizing and philosophizing would be discernable in
>the performance. On the other hand, the players do want and need to hear
>from the conductor about those technical aspects of the music that make a
>successful performance possible.

Ed - you really put this in a nutshell - better than I thought possible! A
great quote that I will excerpt for my conducting class with your permission!

RG

Roger Garrett
Assistant Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, IWU Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

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