Klarinet Archive - Posting 000124.txt from 2004/03

From: "Patricia A. Smith" <arlyss1@------.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Showmanship and performance; was, Colored clarinets (formerly
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 07:27:17 -0500

Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:

>Carbonare shot his pianist onstage after breaking his own
>clarinet in half and slobbering on his shoes while trying to clear his clarinet's holes of saliva; and last year Brunhilde, the Buxom Drag Trombonist, destroyed the audience while the conductor and Calcara insulted all of clarinet-dom.
>
hmm, sounds kinda cute, and definitely entertaining.

I was thinking more along the lines of "entertaining" as a performer
whose personality infused his/her playing so much that the presence of
personality came across as much or more than the music itself. Though
the anecdotes related are amusing and those sorts of performances are
definitely entertaining in the sense we discuss "entertaining" more
often these days. I'm sorry I didn't make very clear what I meant in my
earlier post. (Not sure it's clear now, to tell the truth. It's one of
those gray areas ...)

Patricia Smith