Klarinet Archive - Posting 000121.txt from 2004/09

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Klezmer info
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:09:48 -0400

Fred=A0Jacobowitz wrote:

> Who said anything about good or bad
> music??????????!!!!!!!!!! And, who is telling you
> or anyone else what you can or can't play? I
> resent that you are putting words in my mouth.

Fred, it's up to Lelia to respond for herself, of course. But I don't
think Lelia meant her comments the way that you have perceived them.

However, there is a larger issue involved (imo).

Lelia's statement implies that playing (say) Baroque music in a
different style than what they played back then is not a sin either ---
unless one's goal is precisely to play it the way that they did back
then.

The usual statement is that we should play in the manner that the music
demands. Serve the music, etc. The issue is that humans are not a
constant, neither geographically nor culturally nor over history nor
religiously nor <whatever>. Thus music "demands" different things from
different individuals, different cultures, etc.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but that's what I perceived Lelia to be saying,
although she was addressing a subset of all music.

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