Klarinet Archive - Posting 000148.txt from 2002/08

From: "James Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Are you a mover & a shaker?
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 17:31:15 -0400

This seems to be one of those subjects that almost anything you answer,
you're probably right.

I think movement "in moderation" is fine. What's "in moderation"? I
haven't a clue. In general, it is movement that reflects the mood of what
one is playing, without proving a distraction. Too far -- in either
direction -- is a distraction. I don't like to watch players who appear to
have accidentally sat upon a broom handle. It appears they have no passion
for what they're doing. I don't like to watch the flappers. At best, it
appears an affectation

Yesterday, on the ARTS network, which I keep on in the office for
"background", I saw a clip of one of the Berlin orchestras. The camera
closed on the first clarinet player, who looked for all the world like he
was going to try to fly off the stage, directly into the balcony -- and that
he might well have made it. Not pleasurable to watch.

(If everyone will pardon my sticking a quasi-religious remark in,) it's
rather like one of the mottos of the chuch I attended as a youngster: "In
all things, moderation." That works for me. <g>

Jim

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