Klarinet Archive - Posting 000953.txt from 2003/04

From: "Joseph Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Stage movements, redux
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:44:49 -0400

<< IMHO, a classical musician should be (at least slightly) conservative as
they are depicting not just music but the era from which it comes. >>

What makes you think musicians were less showy in days gone by? The liner
notes for one of my discs of the Beethoven Violin Concerto claim that at the
premiere, the original violinist "played a piece upside-down on his fiddle"
for light relief in-between the first and second movements.

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