Klarinet Archive - Posting 000112.txt from 2004/12

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: Re: [kl] Scaramouche
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 21:39:31 -0500

On 6 Dec, "Fernando Silveira" <fernandounirio@-----.com> wrote:

> Please Tony, see the another mensage. But, with respect, I would like to
> ask, too, who is Daniella Thompson. American, English?? Musician or not??
> I don't know. I am just shure she is not Brazilian to say those things. How
> deeply she have gone? First or second hand information?? I have been
> reserching Brazilian music for the past 10 years. I can tell you that 90%
> of the books about Brazilian music have big mistakes and conflict
> information. Choro music are played in a diferent way it is found on the
> paper. There is two diferent views on brazilian music subject: see scores
> and listen to the music "in loco". I think it makes diference and could
> answer why she wrote those things. All choros are similar on rythm matter -
> at least on the paper. Maybe for that reason she did that unhappy
> comparison.

OK. But, as I said, it really makes no difference to anything.

Compare: I assert that Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments is
'uncannily' similar to Janacek's Sinfonietta.

Has the world moved?-)

Tony
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