Klarinet Archive - Posting 000062.txt from 2001/04

From: stewart kiritz <kiritz@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fw: [kl] RE: Jonathan Cohler and friends in "Clarinetissimo!"
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 02:20:08 -0400

Roger,

I stand corrected. I promise I will never do it again. And I may even use
vibrato from time to time, but I'll never give a reason for it.

Stewart

----- Original Message -----
From: <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subject: Re: [kl] Fw: [kl] RE: Jonathan Cohler and friends in
"Clarinetissimo!"

> At 10:51 AM 4/4/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >You could equally well argue that tastes have changed, and that just as
> >Bach is played
> >on a piano using dynamics today, contemporary flute or recorder players
> >have evolved to a style of using more vibrato. Which is correct?
Neither.
>
> Stewart,
>
> You are not allowed to call a contemporary flute a flute. It is nothing
> like the flute of the 1700s, nor does it even sound like one...........so
> STOP IT!
>
> LOL
>
> >It is difficult to find a right/wrong regarding vibrato if one is not
> >claiming to be consistent with some historical or current paradigm of
> >performance. Each player is left to work out an internal aesthetic that
> >fits for her/his own musical sensibilities. Anything else would be
> >elevating one's own taste to a supposedly rational standard of
> >correctness, which to me is a category error.
>
> One of my colleagues, Bill West (our saxophone/flute/theory teacher),
> mentioned how he listened to different vocal artists - notably Barbara
> Streisand - for use of vibrato. He said it really made a big difference
in
> the way he developed his tastes for using vibrato in his classical
> saxophone playing. BTW, Bill owns two beautiful reproductions of Baroque
> Flutes, and he is a fantastic performer on both of them.
>
> The discussion of vibrato and aesthetics is very interesting.......
>
> Best wishes,
> Roger Garrett
>
> Roger Garrett
> Clarinet Professor
> Director, Symphonic Winds
> Advisor, Recording Services
> Illinois Wesleyan University
> School of Music
> Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
> (309) 556-3268
>
> "A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes
> another's."
> Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)
>
>
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