Klarinet Archive - Posting 000121.txt from 2005/01

From: "Keith" <100012.1302@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] RE: klarinet Digest 10 Jan 2005 09:14:59 -0000 Issue 5752
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 05:07:01 -0500

Nick,

Just to clarify, my remark was not meant to be caustic, and I think Dan
knows me well enough to understand that! I was really interested to know how
we knew (to which Dan admirably responded). The Grove article sounds exactly
what I was asking about. I don't have easy access to Grove but will search
it out.

Thanks

Keith

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> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 21:23:05 +0000
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> From: Nick Shackleton <njs5@-----.uk>
> Subject: Klocker
> Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20050109210141.02c0bea0@-----.uk>
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> I had not intended to get involved in this discussion but
> can't keep out. A week or so ago Dan Leeson very sensibly
> said we should look in Grove and Keith Bowen made a caustic
> remark about not being interested in secondary sources. Grove
> 6 has an excellent (well, it seems to me as an amateur to be
> excellent) article by Eva Badura-Skoda on "Cadenza" which
> introduces us and quotes from some of the myriad primary
> sources (most of us would have no idea where to find the
> primary sources, how to evaluate them, which ones are
> significant, without this kind of help). To me the important
> point is that Dan has repeatedly told us what he believes a
> well-behaved and obedient player in Mozart's time would have
> done. The Grove article reminds us that (a) time does not
> stand still, and (b) players are not (and never
> were) all the same and are not all obedient to the "rules" of
> the time. We do not have any idea whether Stadler would have
> behaved as Dan would like; certainly not everybody did. More
> important, because the discussion is not about Mozart but
> about Klocker's recordings of other music by several
> composers, fashions were changing and different players
> reacted in different ways. Clearly there were players in
> Mozart's time who Dan would disapprove of based on the rules
> he has learned. If Klocker does the same we are free not to
> like it but I don't think we should be prejudiced not to like
> it because he doesn't follow a particular source.
> Nick
>
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