Klarinet Archive - Posting 000757.txt from 2003/10

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] "A little travelling music, Ray...."
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 03:04:01 -0500

I think anything too exciting is probably out. I was driving with the
last movement of Mahler's First the other day - speeds crept up.

As for Act III of Die Walkure - positively dangerous! Especially in a
BMW in the fast lane of the motorway - my speed with that can easily
creep up from my normal cruise of 90-95 to... well, a lot more!

I'd counsel against the last movement of Beethoven's Fifth for the same
reason (having suffered similar effects!)

Now if you want REAL music whilst driving, the scream of a BMW
Motorsport engine at over 7,000 revs is just the ticket! Who needs a CD
player if you have that?

Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Hausmann [mailto:bhausmann1@-----.net]
Subject: Re: [kl] "A little traveling music, Ray...."

At 04:15 PM 10/29/2003 -0800, Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:
>Just out of curiosity:
>
>What quality in a recording makes it especially appropriate for
>travelling (vs. other listening venues)? Would, say, Tchaikovsky
Piano
>Concerto #1 be more or less appropriate than, say, Burl Ives singing
sea
>shanties?

Too much dynamic range (difference between the loudest and softest
parts)
can be undesirable. Especially in a noisy car, the soft parts can
disappear
under the noise and/or the loud parts blast your ears off. Much
classical
music, especially recently recorded music on CD, is problematical that
way. OLD big band jazz and all rock is very much more compressed, so a
comfortable and relatively constant listening volume can be more readily

achieved.

Another possible thing to avoid when driving is music that is TOO
relaxing. I have a CD of Branford Marsalis playing French romantic
music
on soprano sax. It is downright HYPNOTIC!

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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