Klarinet Archive - Posting 000863.txt from 2003/08

From: "eclef.com" <eclef@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gezunt or Gezint
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:41:55 -0400

It'was missunterstandin.... Blood I meant is a native music you've born
with..As you know to many articulations in Klezmer, Yedish music. Of course
everybody can play anything, but my point someone who was born with it can
perform with more fillings It's inside. And I didnt mean any sinonims to
"rasism".
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ormondtoby Montoya" <ormondtoby@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Gezunt or Gezint

> Eclef, here's a word of caution:
>
> To most of us whose first language is English (American or British), the
> strict interpretation of "in the blood" is that a person is genetically
> better suited to the activity being discussed. Such a statement
> borders on bigotry, although I doubt you intended such a thing.
>
> What Dan is saying to you is that if you grow up with a certain genre of
> music, you *may* play it a bit differently than someone who did not grow
> up with it. So long as you don't go beyond this statement, I don't
> think that Dan has any complaint.
>
> There is a similar problem with the way you are using the word "soul."
> To many of us, "playing with soul" means producing music that stimulates
> deep emotion. You, however, appear to be equating "soul" with playing
> in the traditional harmonies, rhythms, dynamics, etc.
>
> It happens that tonight I heard a Caucasian man who was born and raised
> in California play --- among other things --- (1) a native American
> snake dance, (2) a Hebrew melody arranged by ancient Romans into a
> military march and eventually adapted by Spanish monks of the Catholic
> church as the basis for a Gregorian chant, and (3) a black American
> spiritual played in ragtime-esque style. He played with such depth of
> emotion that the audience gave him 3-4 minutes of uninterrupted standing
> ovation.
>
> Now if you define "less soul" as not playing the snake dance exactly the
> way American Indians did 200 years ago, or as not playing the Roman
> march exactly as the ancient Romans did, then I won't argue. But if
> you attempt to say that the performer tonight was genetically unable to
> draw heart-pounding emotion out of another culture's music, or to play
> it in a manner appropriate to worshipping a snake god or to marching an
> army, then you are wrong. During other concerts, I have heard the same
> person play Japanese and South American music and achieve the same
> results.
>
> (Not to mention that he's 83 or 84 years old now, and he has played 200+
> concerts --- full concerts without leaving the stage --- during the last
> 12 months. To say that he doesn't play "with soul" is ridiculous. My
> heart is still thumping 2 hours after I left the theater.)
>
>
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