Klarinet Archive - Posting 001015.txt from 2002/11

From: Bi6W@-----.net (Bill Wright)
Subj: [kl] What is "respect for music"?
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 22:05:50 -0500

<><> Dan Leeson wrote:
only that I find [a violin concerto on played trumpet to be]
fundamentally disrespectful of music

Dan, is there a difference between a jazz musician re-arranging one of
Benny Goodman's charts vs. playing K.622 with a change of
instrumentation?

[ My question does not contemplate something so extreme as K.622 on
xylophone --- though I imagine that Lionel Hampton *did* perform a
'classical' melody or two on xylophone during his lifetime. Was Eddie
Daniels disrespectful to music when he changed Vivaldi's Four Seasons
into "Five Seasons" with drastically altered instrumentation? ]

One potential pitfall would be if we were to say: "It depends on the
audience. Jazz audiences expect this sort of thing."

The pitfall would be that two subsets of any audience, including
'classical', may have different expectations. Or is 'Classical' a
monolithic concept?

Regards,
Bill

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