Klarinet Archive - Posting 000336.txt from 2005/02
From: Tom Philp <tom.philp@-----.au>
Subj: RE: [kl] composer's intentions
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:24:05 -0500
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Gidday All,
Just a couple of oafish personal observations to stir the pot a bit;
- Bach, Mozart et al are dead. They aren't in a position to care what you d=
o to their compositions much less do anything about it.
- I seem to play a lot of music (mostly a smidge less dated) which has been=
"adapted" for clarinet; and I'm glad it was. I wonder if the composer is a=
ctually flattered that someone has gone to the trouble of transposing/inter=
preting the piece so that its use is extended.
- A fine wine is one "you" enjoy not one that some boffin tells you is good=
.=20
- Morihei Usheba, the founder of Akido advised; learn the technique etc and=
then let it go and be a free spirit in your practice.=20
- Eastern philosophers would invite us to avoid classifying an action as ri=
ght or wrong but instead to consider the intent and motivation driving that=
action. =20
May you all enjoy fruitful practice in your chosen directions.
Cheers,
Tom =20
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From: dnleeson <dnleeson@-----.net>
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] composer's intentions
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:45:00 GMT
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Judging from this note, you have three thoughts on the matter:
(1) I am a pompous self righout ass, (2) You think that Bach
smiles on us and rasises a glass of ale under the conditions your
describe, (3) Mozart would be thrilled to hear a gondolier with
an accordion doing one of his songs.
Considering the fact that only 1/3 of your thoughts have any
basis in fact, the rest of it can be dismissed as your opinion.
And I don't much cater to opinions about what Bach and Mozart
would do under circumstances that you invent.
And that, Vann Joe, is the way we shall leave it.
Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net
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From: Vann Joe Turner [mailto:medpen@-----.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:26 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] composer's intentions
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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