Klarinet Archive - Posting 000592.txt from 2001/09

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Recognizing what is on the page
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 04:31:11 -0400

David Hattner states:-

> My attitude toward playing softly is: if you don't miss any soft attacks
in a
> whole concert, you probably weren't trying hard enough to play soft. It is
> FAR better from my perspective to miss a few and have a bunch of
extrordinary
> ones that to 'get' them all but have most of them be ordinary or too loud.

My head is a bit 'thick' this Monday morning after a heavy weekend of posh
garden party chamber ensembles 5tets AND nonets on the banks of the Thames,
and a 'drop everything panic' to shoot over to Gatwick to stand in (on
piano) at the hotel.

So could I ask David to elucidate a little more here, as I don`t understand
what he`s explaining.

Thank you.

Tony W.

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