Klarinet Archive - Posting 000252.txt from 2003/02

From: "Raycraft" <raycraft@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Castelnuovo-Tedesco Question
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 16:53:46 -0500

Dan,
I am actually a very tolerant person, and I agree that we each have
our own things that interest and fascinate us. This is what makes the
world go 'round. I was just meaning to address the fact that
maybe we DO put too much importance in things (we all have done it)
that may SEEM like a big deal at the time, because we are so
involved and caught up in it.....maybe at some point further down
the road, we may look back and go, "Whoa! Why did I make such
an issue over THAT?"
This sounds to me like a problem that no one really knows the correct
answer to, and since we can't ask the composer.......????
Sue

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Castelnuovo-Tedesco Question

> Sue, how you spend your life is your decision, but for some players, how
> to play a couple of notes is a matter of life and death. And you should
> make a genunie effort to be as understanding of that attitude and they
> probably are in be understanding of yours.
>
> Whether or not you are "totally wrong here," as you suggested, is not my
> decision to make, nor is it yours to decide if we who dwell on these
> matter are the ones who are totally wrong, either.
>
> Tolerance Sue, tolerance.
>
> Dan
>
> Raycraft wrote:
> > 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>
> > To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 8:30 AM
> > 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 **
> >>>**leeson0@-----.net **
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