Klarinet Archive - Posting 000142.txt from 2003/04

From: Georg.Kuehner@-----.de (Georg K=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=hner)
Subj: Re: [kl] Orpheus Orchestra
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:31:19 -0400

Am 05.04.2003 10:24 Uhr schrieb "B. Rite" unter <b1rite@-----.net>:

> <><> Georg=A0K=FChner wrote:
> The interesting thing is that every musician has to listen carefully
> what=B4s going on around him

Each musician has to "play" and show what normally ?! one conductor does. S=
o
every one is more involved in the whole thing.
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> By definition, none of them ever hears the _entire_ orchestra from the
> audience's point of view.

There are about 100 up to 300 or even 500 points of view depending where
every persons in the audience takes a seat. And there are different rooms
with different acoustics ...

> That is, when one of the principles is
> listening from an audience seat, he/she isn't playing. Of course, no
> instrument plays during every moment, but during the moments when every
> instrument is playing, who judges the result from the audience point of
> view?

Every person in the orchestra has the possibility to alk through the room a=
t
nay time he or she wants to. And You can try things like sit in a big circl=
e
and play to an center point and so on. And you need to have persons in whom
you can trust who know the music - know how the music sounds in different
locations and so on.

> Tonight's concert was excellent (Haydn, Carter, Beethoven --- Haydn was
> my favorite, "La Chasse"), and therefore I'm not complaining or
> criticizing. I'm just thinking out loud. Maybe they respect the
> opinion of a production crew member in such situations?
>=20
Best Georg