Klarinet Archive - Posting 000017.txt from 2004/05

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: RE: [kl] Eb part in Symphonie Fantastique
Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 23:35:11 -0400

Dan=A0Leeson wrote:

> The proper argument is much more simple:
> "the composer called for that clarinet [in C]."
> That is something that cannot be argued
> against. It is a fact. Now, an opponent can
> say in response, "Sure but what does he
> know?" And when that happens, the
> opponent doesn't have an argument with you
> but with Berlioz or Beethoven or Mozart or
> whoever. And s/he is not going to win that
> argument, only make an ass out of himself by
> suggesting that s/he knows more than the
> composer.

Dan, I'm not a performer of any substance, and therefore my opinion
doesn't carry much weight. I certainly don't want to be blasted as a
"dilettante" again. But don't you think that occasionally a musician
must give priority to his/her own feelings despite what the composer
asked for?

I can't help remembering a comment that Tony Pay made a few days ago in
reply to Joseph Wakeling:

Joseph wrote:

> However I'm willing to be persuaded that this
> is me just thinking I "know better than the
> composer what he wanted". ;-)

Tony replied:

> That's too generous of you. What you have to
> say in this particular case is that even if he
> really wanted what's printed, he was *wrong*.
> Ain't no rules in this game, Joe.

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