Klarinet Archive - Posting 000843.txt from 2002/07

From: Mark Gresham <mgresham@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Time for a moderated list? (Even further off topic)
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 08:49:21 -0400

Tony Pay wrote:
>
> --- Kimber <wolfcry01@-----.com> wrote:
>
> > Does being facetious effect your playing at all? I am sarcastic a lot, which
> > is why I use the word so much. But I was wondering if it could have any
> > effect on the way you play, like grief and love and hate do?
>
> I'd say that your facetiousness, like your grief and love and hate, doesn't
> have a direct effect on the way you play. But your ability to be in touch with
> your possibility for facetiousness, like your ability to be in touch with your
> possibility for grief, love and hate, does have an effect on the way you play.
>
> What you're expressing in music isn't what *you* feel, but what the music wants
> to express. So someone who has available all the things you mention above is a
> more ideal medium for the expression of music than someone who doesn't.

I agree with David Glenn that Tony stepped in at the right moment with a
real and helpful post by picking out what is most important rather than
"picking on" a lot of other elements of her postings. Thanks for
restoring substance to the thread.
It's also great that Kimber, at age 13, is "in touch" enough to ask
such a mature question in the first place (in the midst of otherwise
being normally 13), given how many college students (and even some pros)
play like automatons, repoducing a lot of sounds but not much music.
(Kimber should check into the work of Dalcroze, since she is a wrestler,
and might be interested in relating physical movement and musical
expression.)
But I will add something as answer to Kimber: Being in touch with all
of those emotions can definitely affect the way you COMPOSE music.
Maybe you should give it a try, Kimber, if you haven't done so already.

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