Klarinet Archive - Posting 000129.txt from 2002/08

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Are you a mover & a shaker? - chairs & eyes
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:37:10 -0400

--- redcedar2 <redcedar2@-----.au> wrote:

> In my view, Meyer's performance, whilst marvellous music, was a very good
> argument for seating the soloist.

Nah. Then they just ride the chair as if it were bucking like a bronco.
I remember a performance in San Francisco of an Asian guitarist. Can't
remember his name, but among the guitarists in the audience they attest-
ed that he was/is on the level of Williams, Parkening, Tennenbaum, etc.
He played transcriptions of orchestra works, incluging Stravinsky's Fire-
bird, and it was quite a pyro-technical display. I did have to close my
eyes however, because I felt sure that the chair would throw him and he
would break his arm. I couldn't bear to watch.

I've learned over the years that closing your eyes during a performance
truly does alter the experience, and pieces/orchestras/performers that
I didn't particularly like before became much more meaningful and inter-
esting to me when using only my aural sense and nothing visual. I high-
ly recommend closing your eyes and just hearing the music and let it
get inside of you through your ears.

Neil

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