Klarinet Archive - Posting 000185.txt from 2003/10

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: [kl] Who speaks? (was: Lying awake early in the morning)
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:21:02 -0400

Matthew=A0Lloyd wrote:

> [a certain composer's music] is simply better,
> and that is why you feel more at home with it.

Tonight on a Public Broadcasting station, a performer was asked to
discuss his own emotions while performing, and he said: "With [this
music] I restrain my emotion and allow the music to speak for itself."
I wonder how often this is the proper way to think about music?
Always? Only with certain compositions? Never? At what point do
you risk .... I don't know, emasculating? .... music by not putting some
of your own feelings into it?

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org