Klarinet Archive - Posting 000280.txt from 2003/09

From: Ed Wojtowicz <ewoj@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinetist/Musician
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:21:43 -0400

I once saw a program on TV where Domingo was talking about how when he is
learning a new score he sits down at the piano and plays through the score
and sings the parts.

Ed

> From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:37:58 -0400
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Clarinetist/Musician
>
>
> The world of classical singing, especially opera, has been replete with
> people with wonderful voices who nevertheless could not read a note of
> music. Enrico Caruso was one. More recently Franco Corelli and Luciano
> Pavarotti were and are part of this contingent. They had to be taught
> their roles by a coach and learn them by ear. They played no instrument
> (piano is usually the obvious choice). I don't know about Caruso, but
> Pavarotti and Corelli both commit unmusical errors: missing entrances,
> screwing up dynamic markings, stepping on another singer's lines because
> the only music they've committed to memory is their own, and that by
> rote. Great voices or not, these are not musicians--they're simply great
> instruments. By comparison, Placido Domingo is transitioning as his voice
> fades into a conductor because he studied conducting and piano at the
> conservatory in Mexico City years ago.
>
> Ken

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