Klarinet Archive - Posting 000329.txt from 2003/10

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Who speaks? (was: Lying awake early in the morning)
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:45:05 -0400

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:43:37 -0400, alevin@-----.net said:

> Erik Thal wrote:
>
> > How can one *not* put their feelings into it? When I play, the piece
> > itself affects me
>
> Those feelings of yours are (or should be) derived from the music.
> They are "yours" only to the extent that the music has evoked a
> sympathetic response in your vocabulary of feelings.

Yes. The point is, to find 'what the music wants to express' is
sometimes not easy. We may have to develop an understanding, practise a
technique, learn something about the context in which the music was
written.

'Putting your feelings into it' describes the poor man's way out.

Notice that nothing I've said precludes that you may wind up playing
expressively and passionately, because that's what you find out *the
music* wants.

Compare 'The Neverending Story'. Bastien is urged, "Do what you will!"
He finds out that's not so easy either when he tries it.

Tony
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