Klarinet Archive - Posting 000152.txt from 2002/08

From: "Avrahm Galper" <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Movers and shakers
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 12:58:40 -0400

Movers and Shakers

There are players who like to move a lot to show that they are involved in
the music.
Every nuance has to be indicted by some gesture.
This also happened at the beginning of the clarinet era.
Comments were made by the critics of those days.
I myself do not like extra motions.
I once went to hear a clarinetist who used a lot of motion.
As matter of fact the clarinet always did a little dance in the mouth to
indicate involvment.
At the concert I eventually closed my eyes. The interesting thing was that
the playing did not seem that expressive
When Heifetz arrived on the scene in New York, some critics accused him of
playing coldly. He did not move at all.
But when you listen to his recordings, the impression is quite different.

Abe Galper

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