Klarinet Archive - Posting 000126.txt from 2003/10

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Lying awake early in the morning
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 13:47:25 -0400

Buckman, Nancy wrote:

> I don't want to stretch the speech vs mood metaphor so far as to
> distort its meaning, but I suppose one can argue that pictorial
> representations obtained from hearing romantic music might well be
> more difficult to assimilate than the speech of Classical music. In
> my own case, I found that my playing of Brahms did not even begin to
> approach acceptable until I was well beyond 30, and possibly even 40.
> Oh, I played all the notes, and thought that my interpretation was
> mature, but it was childish, something that I did not figure out
> until later.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> I am well beyond forty. Is there still hope? I love Brahms'
> Serenades and much of the orchestral stuff, but I have difficulty
> understanding what is wanted from me as a clarinetist (soloist). And
> I love "listening" to anything he wrote. I just have a hard time
> understanding what to do with his music, unless I listen to a
> recording. I can emulate just about anything, once I have heard it,
> but to figure it out on my own is like opening a can of worms....God
> only knows what might appear.
>
> Nancy
>

Well, if you are that old, there is no hope for you. I believe that
Federal Law requires all sexual interests and practices to stop at age
37. After that one feels nothing and Brahms makes one fall asleep.

Try Alban Berg. If that is clear to you, then surely you must be
classified as a degenerate!!

:-))

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