Klarinet Archive - Posting 000127.txt from 2002/08

From: "IR & KA Alexander" <blanerne@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] Are you a mover & a shaker?
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 04:52:41 -0400

I have to eat humble pie as I type this....
I have always firmly believed that movement while you play (other than
breath and slight movement ) will detract from the sound quality and pitch
of student performers. I have however just returned from Sabine Meyer
performing Mozart in the Sydney Opera House and she danced to her
performance. She did more than sway, she was intensly distracting. In
saying this - the shock that I got watching her dance was multiplied by the
fact that she was pitch perfect. In fact her performance was the single
BEST ever that I have heard.
I am now in a dilema. Obviously , the movement was not harming her
performance - so my teaching is based on an untruth. I was taught by a
perfectionist Czechoslovakian who was very sure that movement detracted
from pure musicality and I do not move when I play. ...... maybe we all
should.
> > From: "C & B Sabal" <jomalu@-----.com>
> > Subject: [kl] Are you a mover & a shaker?
> >
> > 2 part question for all:
> >
> > 1. Do you find it distracting when you are at a concert when musicians
sway
> > w/ the music?
> >
> > 2. Do you emote with the music and move as you play?
> >
> > I am asking because I tend to move as I play and I'm wondering if I
should
> > stop....if it's a distraction
> >
> >
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