Klarinet Archive - Posting 000046.txt from 2004/07

From: "Noel Taylor" <r.n.taylor@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] re: Hello Infidel! - a way out
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 05:32:47 -0400


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From: Gene Nibbelin [mailto:gnibbelin@-----.com]

I am 75 years old and have earned the right to say anything I please so
SCREW YOU.

Gene Nibbelin

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At the risk of going way off topic....I remember Tony Pay saying he avoided
seeking to put emotion into his clarinet playing (I hope I got that right),
and I found it very curious and thought provoking. I tend to enjoy my own
playing when I can feel my own emotional energy getting into the music -
whether I feel sad or happy or angry - I get the deepest satisfaction from
finding a voice for those feelings. I don't claim this makes for 'good'
music - but I have noticed that audiences or other musicians will pick up
and respond. At other times I go kind of musically dead - I can play the
notes in all the right places and it may sound like music, but everything
lacks conviction, nothing is sustained.

So, in the case of anger or even the mildly unhinged rage we all sometimes
probably feel - how do other people process those still lingering feelings
when they play? Do they get in the way, or can you use them constructively?

Noel Taylor

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