Klarinet Archive - Posting 000219.txt from 2003/02

From: "Raycraft" <raycraft@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Castelnuovo-Tedesco Question
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:44:17 -0500

Hi,
I may be totally wrong here, but isn't there MORE to
life than how to play a couple of NOTES????????
Sue

----- Original Message -----
From: "Forest E. Aten Jr." <forestaten@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Castelnuovo-Tedesco Question

> Dan,
>
> I recently listened to an interview on NPR with a contemporary
> mathematician/author promoting his newest book. The book noted this
> phenomena of "original" thought in younger minds. He documented this using
a
> historical review of math breakthroughs and noting the age of the
> mathematician at the time. It seems that the older the mathematician the
> more "set in their ways".....a few anomalies...but not many in his
> historical review.
> I'll try to find the reference. It's been several months and I while I was
> intrigued, I wasn't listening well enough to remember the authors name.
>
> Forest
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 10:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Castelnuovo-Tedesco Question
>
>
> > 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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> > **Dan Leeson **
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