Klarinet Archive - Posting 000217.txt from 2003/02

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Castelnuovo-Tedesco Question
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:15:27 -0500

Marlena wrote:

> Kk, I think u should go with what YOU want to do; play the C#s! I
> mean, in general, if u play music as it is written, it almost makes u
> fall asleep. U have to put yourself into it, change tempo, dynamics,
> right? So I think this rule applies in this case.
>

That one should do as one wishes and have a completely unfettered view
of how to perform is a point of view often expressed by young people who
want to feel no constraint working against what they see is their
artistic development. And that view has some merit because it tends to
encourage independent thinking. As a result of thinking independently,
the party, if intellectually honest, can go no where but to the place
against which they are arguing so emotionally. So such eventually people
wind up doing the very thing that they rebelled against.

Several years ago, a young woman on this list stated explicitly that she
was a modern person, unchained from all ideas of the past, and she
intended to perform K. 622 in whatever way struck her fancy. I wonder
what happened to her and if she has now become a flaming conservative.

I see Marlena a few years from now telling her children and eventually
her grandchildren that the traditional way is the only way. I do hope
that her written skills get better, though. It is not easy to read what
she writes. Punctuation Marlena, punctuation!!
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