Klarinet Archive - Posting 000293.txt from 2003/09

From: Jenny Connors <theconnors@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Clarinetist/Musician
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:52:21 -0400

I've always admired people who could hear something and play it back on the
piano or any other instrument. I am (or I used to be, when I played much
more) a rather good sight reader, but could not repeat a melody if first
chair depended on it! Who's to say if they can't read music but can do
that, they're not the better musician!?!?

Jenny
www.theconnorswebsite.com
www.whitewavedesigns.net

At 01:08 PM 9/12/2003, you wrote:
>I think it's still around especially in folk or ethnic music. I spent
>some time fooling around with Irish music for awhile and the tradition
>still seems to be to hear it/learn it/play it rather than work off the
>printed page. Or if you can read music, the bare bones of the melody
>become the springboard for your own imaginings.
>
>I'm a terrible sight reader. I can read music but I have the
>Caruso/Corelli/Pavarotti problem--I need to hear something before the
>notes on the page make any sense. Some problem, though--hey, I should
>only really HAVE the voices any of those three guys had (I refer to Pav in
>the past tense because IMHO he's got nothing left).
>
>Ken

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