Klarinet Archive - Posting 000041.txt from 2002/04

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Shocking
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 01:37:40 -0500

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 07:23:34 +0100, michael@-----.uk said:

> Do some wish to shock?
>
> Exhibit A: Henze's Clarinet Concerto "Miracle de la Rose"

Yes, written for me, as you doubtless know:-)

> This is based on a work by the French novelist and playwright, Jean
> Genet (1910-?). Most of his works inhabit a depraved world, and it is
> difficult (for me) to understand why composers would write such a
> work, players play it, orchestras schedule it and audiences listen to
> it?

Well, those things don't quite stand on the same level, I'd have
thought. I don't find it difficult to see why everything after Henze's
writing it -- me practising and rehearsing it, and the Sinfonietta
putting on the concert and tour -- simply fell out. Much of the music
is beautiful, and even the 'story', though extreme, is the sort of thing
that one might dream.

I don't know why he chose to do it. But his musical language is well
suited to invoking that sort of atmosphere.

> Otherwise one's only contact with this end of the spectrum is as a
> juryman or woman...

If it got acted out, I suppose. But that occurs relatively rarely,
surely.

> ...quite clearly some of us live a privileged and sheltered life.

I think more and more often that the lives we live, and our views of the
world, are extraordinarily partial and incomplete; and how other even
marginally different worlds belonging to other people are almost totally
inaccessible to us.

Tony
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