Klarinet Archive - Posting 000399.txt from 2004/05

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Rosen on text and performance
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 14:03:03 -0400

Ormontoby wrote:

Presumably Mahler didn't want the composer's sound when he did
the
reorchestration. Does this, by itself, make the changes 'good'
or
'bad'?

A fast road to hell occurs whenever one makes a presumption about
what Mahler (or anyone else) wanted or didn't want. Even he did
not know half the time what he wanted, so how can we at this
distance make presumptions about it.

One can do nothing but get in trouble by such speculation.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

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