Klarinet Archive - Posting 000331.txt from 2005/02

From: "Vann Joe Turner" <medpen@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] composer's intentions
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:26:58 -0500

Dan, I always look forward to your posts, and have learned from you. Thanks
for that. But at times -- and I'm sure you know this -- you can be a real
pompous and self-righteous xxx.

You maintain no change in instrumentation, but I think the great composers
would laugh at you on that.

I think Bach smiles and raises a glass of ale when he hears one of his lute
pieces performed on the guitar. When he hears a piano playing a work
originally for harsichord, he applauds.

If the music has musical interest to start with, it can withstand a change
in instrumentation, without violation of the music itself. If it can't
withstand that, it probably isn't worth listening to in the first place.

Mozart would be thrilled to hear a gondaleer with an accordion doing one of
his arias. Could you argue this otherwise? I doubt it.

If you had it your way, Till Eulenspeigel could never be played on the Eb,
only the D. And to think of the sacreledge of having a bass clarinet play
the bassoon solo in Tchaikovsky 6.

Purity for purities' sake defiles the living/breathing nature of music
itself. You know that. I think your original assertions were asserted for
the sole purpose of getting a broohaha going.

Vann Joe

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