Klarinet Archive - Posting 000222.txt from 2004/07

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bumblebee2
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 04:32:37 -0400

On 6 Jul, "C.C. Lin" <englishiris@-----.com> wrote:

> Wow! It's nice reading everybody's criticism about using flight of the
> bumblebee for an audition piece.

It's not a wise choice. But see below.

> But, what if I get creative with it? What if I do something totally
> original with it? What if I can change it to show both musical and
> technical ability?

The very fact that you put it in this way shows that you won't be able to --
yet.

A great instrumentalist and musician *could* play the piece, which is a
tiny masterpiece, magnificently, thereby making it clear to a discriminating
listener that they truly were a great instrumentalist and musician. But that
wouldn't be because they 'did something totally original with it', or
'changed it to show both musical and technical ability'.

It would be because their mastery of tonal nuance on their instrument, plus
their understanding of the mini-drama that a meeting with a bumble-bee often
is for us, enabled the piece to speak for itself, in its own unpretentious
way.

You almost never hear it done, though, because great instrumentalists and
musicians have other rows to hoe. So it gets hacked through by people who
are trying to impress.

But hacking through doesn't hack it.

Tony
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