Klarinet Archive - Posting 000265.txt from 2003/09

From: Erik Tkal <bbtkal@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinetist/Musician
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:59:30 -0400

At 05:18 PM 9/11/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> You can be a good instrumentalist but a terrible musician. I'm not sure the
>> other way around is very prevalent, though, as I think in order to be a good
>> musician you have to be good at at least one instrument...
>
>Actually, my boyfriend is a good musician (in some ways - he's not much of
>an ensemble player) and a mediocre instrumentalist. He grew up in a small,
>remote town, was mostly self-taught on the piano, and started composing
>music on his own, based on inspiration and some reading. If he plays

Diedre,

Yep, I had neglected to consider composers, many who have a gift for "seeing" musicality and yet sometimes do not have that brain-to-muscle connectivity to implement it as well as others. Ormondtoby also pointed out that composers can certainly fall into this category.

Notice that in my original response I tried very hard to not use the word clarinettist. I consider myself a very good musician, but a not-quite-so-good clarinettist (I started from scratch on a new R-13 end of February past). I am a very good trombonist, though. On the bright side, this Monday I played clarinet with a community orchestra in which I normally play trombone (www.wphil.org), since our 2nd clarinet is in England for 3 weeks and the 1st was out of town. I played the first part on the Mendelssohn 5th and the conductor was quite impressed, so perhaps someday I will be a very good clarinettist as well. :-)

Erik

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