Klarinet Archive - Posting 000319.txt from 2003/09

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinetist/Musician
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 09:45:21 -0400

Ken,

I've played on orchestras at least a dozen times with Pavarotti. Both on
stage in recital and in the pit with opera.
Pavarotti never missed an entrance, never screwed up a dynamic and never
stepped on another singers line.
That's not to say he 'never' did any of those things....he's only human.

He knew every word, note and nuance of every other singers part and he knew
how his part fit.

He had an attitude.....but he was a wonderful musician.

Forest Aten

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Clarinetist/Musician

> Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:
>
> > ....is a conductor who can neither play nor compose a "good" musician?
> >
> > <sorry!>
>
> 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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