Klarinet Archive - Posting 000916.txt from 2003/04

From: Joze Kotar <jkotar@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] stage movement
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:44:12 -0400

Hi, Peter,

Was that competition maybe in year 1987? I remember
Japanese lady too. Michio Suzuki I think.
The audience gave here first price.

Joze

Joze Kotar, principal clarinet - Slovenian
Philharmonic

--- Peter Stoll <peterstoll2000@-----.ca> wrote:
> I've always thought about stage movement as part of
> the visual entertainment factor for a live audience.
> But there are definite limits. Some of my formative
> experiences:
>
> -I was at the Belgrade clarinet competition many
> moons
> ago. There was a young Japanese lady who was pulling
> out all the stops, circular breathing, double
> tonguing
> (and this was in standards like the Weber
> Concertino!), flowery low-cut dresses, and enough
> on-stage gyration to put a belly dancer to shame
> (don't laugh; I had to improvise an accompaniment to
> belly dancers 2 months ago at the intermission of a
> concert performance of Mozart's "Abduction from the
> Seraglio!")But I digress...this young lady while
> very
> impressive was so over the top that it was getting
> on
> some of our nerves, so imagine the reaction when,
> near
> the beginning of the Brahms f minor, she gyrated
> around so completely in a 360 that the clarinet
> actually popped out of her mouth at the end of the
> phrase! An open G made a huge and flat squawk! The
> look of shock on her face was priceless...
>
> -While in the Jeunesses Musicales World Youth
> Orchestra in Berlin we taped an opera exerpt show
> for
> outdoor performance at the Victory Statue (a
> "Sternstunde" evening). Spectacular, at one point in
> something from Aida I looked up and there were 2
> elephants being led around in front of the stage.
> Bizarre! But because we were faking to playback (the
> 20 000 auditors were quite far away on an encircling
> lawn if I remember correctly) we clarinetists got a
> tap on the shoulder and there were the
> ever-mischievous trombonists wanting to "trade"
> instruments and places. Let me tell you, watching
> those guys imitate our over-the-top sturm-und-drang
> motions had us laughing so hard I couldn't see the
> music for the tears. Very funny but probably a grain
> of uncomfortable truth there.
>
> -Ever watch the oboe section of the Berlin Phil?
> That's movement! (see the video of Abbado taking
> over
> the helm and them playing Mahler 1)
>
> -wasn't it here on list that I read of a newspaper
> critic commenting that photos of clarinetists always
>
> look like we're being bitten by a very determined
> black snake?
>
> But I still move a bit, it adds to the visuals for a
> crowd used to MTV style kinetic energy. Just not
> over
> the top or out of the mouth!
>
>
>
> =====
> Peter Stoll
>
> University of Toronto
> Toronto Philharmonia
> Continuum Contemporary Music
> ERGO ensemble
> Ocean City Pops, NJ
>
>
>
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