Klarinet Archive - Posting 000870.txt from 2002/07

From: "Kimber" <wolfcry01@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Time for a moderated list? (Even further off topic)
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 03:18:12 -0400

Yes I have. I have composed two pieces, but I personally don't really like
them. Of course, Tchaikovski hated the Dance of The Sugarplum Fairies, if
that's the correct title, and it was what he is known for most.
Kimber the Wrestler
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From: Mark Gresham <mgresham@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Time for a moderated list? (Even further off topic)

>
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Mark Gresham, composer
> mgresham@-----.com/
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