Klarinet Archive - Posting 000096.txt from 2005/06

From: HILARY NICHOLLS <hilarynicholls@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] The New Yorker on recording
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 18:04:17 -0400

Thanks for this thread - fascinating
--- Gary Smith <gary622@-----.com> wrote:

> In an NPR interview just a few years ago, Artie Shaw
> talked about his
> dislike of recording, saying something to the effect
> that "it was like
> having your shoes stuck in concrete." He was
> talking, I think, about
> the fear factor of knowing that your recording was
> going to be around
> a long, long time. And if that fear got to Artie
> Shaw, well it's no
> wonder that it's affected others, especially in
> classical where we've
> just come to expect and sort of worship this ideal
> of perfection over
> expression...
>
>
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