Klarinet Archive - Posting 000278.txt from 2004/08

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] K622 Etheridge book
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:13:03 -0400

John, concerning your comments to Tony Pay, I read David
Etheridge's book, not once but three times. I was asked by the
Clarinet to review it and, as such, felt the necessity to read it
extremely carefully.

This is not the place for me to discuss the matter of my review,
but I was not positive and I am afraid that I agree more with
Tony's perspective than yours. I do not know the extent of Tony's
penetration of the book but I think you may be taking too much of
his comment that he was "shown" it. Personally, I doubt if he
simply looked at it and came to his conclusion.

If you wish to see my review you will have to look it up in the
Clarinet. It was printed there about 20-25 years ago.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: John Gibson [mailto:jblinear2@-----.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 7:31 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] K622 Etheridge book

>>From: "Tony Pay"

> I have to say that that's no great loss. I don't own the book,
but
was once
> shown it 'as a joke' by a professional colleague.
>
> I can't think of a more redundant and misleading idea than to
write
a
> description of how this or that player plays K622 on a
recording.

Tony: Let me get this straight. You were "shown" the book but
have not
read it? Well, I read it. It may not be the most exciting
writing, but
the information is interesting and not available just from
listening
to the recordings. The author thanks his contributors for the
time
each took with him personally looking at their approach to the
piece.
You are right that listening and forming your own opinions is
better,
but this book is a good way to augment that process.

I appreciated your recording of K622 and used it as one of my
reference recordings for an audition. Of course, I *could* have
said
that I saw a recording of yours once and thought the music was
grouchy
and unkind.

John

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