Klarinet Archive - Posting 000225.txt from 2004/04

From: Nancy Buckman <eefer@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Favorite music (was: Pulitzer: Unlisted Non-Winners)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:39:31 -0400

Toby,

I didn't write the excerpt below, Patricia Smith did.

Nancy

Nancy Buckman
Principal Clarinet / Orchestra AACC
eefer@-----.net

At 06:04 PM 4/15/2004, you wrote:
>Nancy Buckman wrote:
>
> > and [I] hope I never have to play any of his
> > stuff again (Music to "The Magic Flute" and
> > his other operas excepted). I don't mind
> > LISTENING to other players playing Mozart
> > [snip] Seriously, though, I just find other
> > music more enjoyable to play, personally.
>
>
>
>Let's put the issue of technical difficulty aside for the moment, such
>as when a person dislikes a part because it's too difficult, and let's
>talk only about what we hear.
>
>I assume you mean that, if you're sitting in an orchestra or large
>ensemble, you can't hear the other instruments in their intended
>balance, and therefore whatever portion of the composition that you
>*can* hear may not sound pleasing to you?
>
>But to discuss solos or duets or small ensembles --- and I've wondered
>from time to time if we listen with a different 'pleasure center' while
>playing, compared to listening without playing; and perhaps we enjoy the
>sound of a composition in one 'mode' of listening, but not in the other?
>

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