Klarinet Archive - Posting 000056.txt from 2001/04

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fw: [kl] RE: Jonathan Cohler and friends in "Clarinetissimo!"
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:25:37 -0400

Sorry Stewart. I thought I checked all the messages but missed this
one. I'm sorry that you feel the way you do, no so much against the
practice, but because you don't have any reason for your statement.
Feeling has much less of a place in clarinet playing than one would
think. As practicing, performing, serious musicians, we need to make
our decisions based on a lot more than how we feel about a practice.
Because we function in a subjective business does not mean that our
arguments about how to play should not have a strong objective side to
them.

You still, of course, have every right to play whatever way you wish,
but you do yourself a disservice by the abandonment of any rational
reason for doing or not doing it.

There are valid technical arguments in support of vibrato on the
clarinet (and other instruments, too, of course) and I suspect that you
are not really as aware of them as you might be.

In any case, thanks for your answer. But I didn't learn anything.

Dan Leeson

stewart kiritz wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "stewart kiritz" <kiritz@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 4:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [kl] RE: Jonathan Cohler and friends in "Clarinetissimo!"
>
> > Dan,
> >
> > Nothing is wrong with it. Some people love peaches and some prefer
> > apricots. Some people like sushi and some can't stand it. It's not a
> > right/wrong thing -- just a reaction.
> >
> > That being said, I do like a gentle touch of vibrato used sparingly. But
> I
> > don't enjoy playing in which vibrato is a constant part of the sound, like
> a
> > violin vibrato (which I do like). Who knows why?
> >
> > Stewart
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Daniel Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
> > To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 4:08 PM
> > Subject: Re: [kl] RE: Jonathan Cohler and friends in "Clarinetissimo!"
> >
> >
> > > Stewart, you have a right to enjoy what you enjoy, but could you share
> > > with me why you have such an aversion to a player using a vibrato. You
> > > write: "Personally, like a previous poster, I don't much enjoy vibrato
> > > on the clarinet except when used extremely sparingly."
> > >
> > > In effect, what's wrong with it?
> > > --
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