Klarinet Archive - Posting 000347.txt from 2005/08
From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] calling names
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:40:15 -0400
Tony
I do not always read all what is in my "klarinet digest", thus probably I
missed something that possibly was important. Nonetheless I think it does
not help to call names to anyone who possibly does not agree with the
opinions vented. In my most humbly opinion the purpose of this list -- and
all other lists I am on -- is, to exchange knowledge, help people who have a
problem, and so on.Thus there is no use in calling someone with a different
opinion an "idiot". When I read Tony's (to me) first mail in which he used
these terms with respect to Vann Joe Turner, I really was shocked, actually
my first thought was: "Tony was drunk when he wrote this".
Of course anybody on this list can disagree with anyone else. I remember
there was a problem with Lelia Loban ("shadowcat") several years ago, and
how happy I was to see she returned to this list, with an undreamed-off
consequence the readers of this list soon will learn about (Lelia, that's
all I am going to say about our project: I almost finished the score of my
fairy tale about the emue. You will receive it within two or three weeks). I
hope Tony's reactions (in my opinion too rather harsh) will not cause Vann
to quit this list: both Tony's thoughtful and expert remarks and Joe's are
of a very high level of interest to me.
I agree Tony's reactions can be a bit harsh, but when I met him last
October, he proved to be a very reasonable man, and we got settled on what
the differences were in our texts of Weber's Concertino. He was very gentle
then. Thus when I read what he wrote in the klarinet digest this morning
(Thursday, 18 August 2005) I was very surprised by the rudeness with which
he wrote.
I agree with him, that someone who worked over fifty years on the clarinet
compositions of Carl Maris von Weber, knows more about them than I do. I
also think when I play them it is MY way of experiencing what Weber wrote,
that I have to express. Even if Tony thinks I do it wrong, or when an expert
on Mozart like Dan Leeson thinks my interpretation of Mozart's K622 isn't
correct I still have to play it the way *I* think it is the best way to play
them, however revolutianary that way may be (which it is not, probably, for
an amateur who is capable to master the technical challenges in it).
What I want to say in this short note, is, that I do NOT appreciate Tony's
rather rude responses on Vann Joe's to me unknown first remarks, but that I
think everyone playing a certain piece, has his responsibilities, and has to
ponder very intenely what he will perform publicly, but whern he does not
perform in front of an audience, it doesn't really matter, even if he or she
does not try very hard!
Ciao
Rien (for the English speaking among us: pronounced like Rheene, not Rhi
yan)
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