Klarinet Archive - Posting 000375.txt from 2002/02

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Musical Expression and Spontaneity
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:03:40 -0500

--- Robert <LetsReason@-----.com> wrote:

> Would that change your (all of you out there) approach? Are you likely to
> sit down in a professional situation and "let's see what we come up with
> this time" during a performance?

That sort of thing actually happens a lot, although perhaps not inten-
tionally. If you get a chance, pick up Arnold Steinhardt's biography
of the Guarneri String Quartet, "Indivisible by Four", wherein he de-
scribes many cases of a prepared performance taking on a life of its
own based a germ of spontaneity from one or more of the players.

~ Neil

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