Klarinet Archive - Posting 000955.txt from 2003/04

From: "Wendy" <bosma@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Stage movements, redux
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:44:51 -0400

<patient sigh> You know what bugs me more than off topic posts? How many
times have I seen "if you would have read what I said...?" My point was
about conservative classical performance. It makes wonderful sense if you
are playing "light relief in between movements" to do it upside down (which
is very cool) or in some other silly manner. I'll bet he didn't goof around
during the actual movements. I think we were discussing how sub-conscious
emotive movement detracts from the music. If you're doing it on purpose, of
course there is nothing wrong with it-no matter what era you live in. The
poor person that almost bonks their 'horn' on the stage while they play is
not doing it to amuse you. Why do I feel I have to defend everything I say
nowadays?

Wendy :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Wakeling [mailto:joseph.wakeling@-----.net]
Subject: Re: [kl] Stage movements, redux

<< 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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