Klarinet Archive - Posting 000400.txt from 2003/10

From: "Noel Taylor" <r.n.taylor@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] band directors
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:02:37 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Raibeck [mailto:klari_1@-----.com]

> Regarding the comment "... it is an enormous mystery to me
> how anyone can play an instrument with a high degree of skill
> and yet freeze completely once the dots aren't there to
> read.": I'm not sure why this should be a mystery. It seems
> clear (at least to me) that the talent and ability needed to
> perform written music are different than the talent and
> ability needed to compose music, be it by carefully written
> and revised manuscript or "on-the-fly" improvisation. To draw
> an analogy, it is one thing to be able to construct a house
> from a given plan, but it is another to be able to create the
> plan itself.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy

I do agree, it must be so. It's still a mystery to me, though - I wish it
wasn't.

Noel

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