Klarinet Archive - Posting 000091.txt from 2001/06

From: AnneLenoir@-----.net (Anne Lenoir)
Subj: Re: [kl] The guru and the internet
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 20:52:55 -0400

P.S. Tony. I know I'm not that dumb. I apologize for shrugging my
shoulders and saying "Duh!" when you get on my nerves. I know you are
very smart and have a lot to say. It's just that sometimes it comes
across as long-winded and arrogant. One time when you were going on
about "pewplowsky" and creativity, I had trouble trying to understand
your reasoning for going on and on. I tried to imagine how Charlie
Parker would have reacted to your long pontification if he had come back
from the dead to demonstrate creativity at the highest level. By the
way, I noticed that Pewplowski is going to be performing in New Orleans.
I wonder what he will have to say about creativity?
I do appreciate your effort to try to explain things to me. I'm
sure that you must be a very kind person. However, some things just
can't be explained to some people. I have been playing gigs with a
wonderful jazz trio 3 nights a week for a couple of weeks, and the band
leader put all the charts on a music stand for me. I told him not to
bother, because I couldn't think fast enough to read and transpose the
changes, I had played many of the tunes before, plus I had just bought a
new pair of reading glasses and still hadn't gotten used to them. It is
easier for me to memorize the melody lines and "take-off" than to try to
read the changes. When I say "Duh!", what I am really saying is: "Tony,
this concept does not mean anything to me whatsoever in "English"
language, only in the the language of melody, rhythm & perhaps
improvization". I hope I haven't been rude to you, because I know that
you are a valued member of "Clarinetville". (Did you see
"Pleasantville"?) ANNIE P. P.S. My new student, Dr. Schwartz, the
survivor of cancer and victim of carpal, tendonitis, parkinsons &
arthritis, who has to play with a neck-strap & thumb brace --- has been
seriously ill for 3 weeks. He said he will be back to his clarinet
lesson next week. One week, I told him about your "sermon" on "ease of
playing" (it's veryhard for him to play), and then I played part of
Reverend Billy's CD, a tune describing his various ailments "What I used
to do all night, now it takes me all night to do". And Dr. Schwartz was
able to laugh (he sort of has a waver in his voice like Katherine
Hepburn) and he started to sound a little bit better.

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