Klarinet Archive - Posting 000451.txt from 2005/08

From: ormo2ndtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Composers as teachers
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:55:11 -0400

Sarah wrote:

> The people of the list are living in different
> cultures and understand even the most simple
> and basic words differently. [snip] Tony
> used the word Truth several times in this
> debate. The nuance that I read is : there is
> one and only truth.

That's true, Sarah. Also, presumably there is a _contextual_
distinction between "Truth" with an upper case "T" vs. "truth" without
the upper case.

Joseph Wakeling pointed out the distinction between (not verbatim) 'put
one's personality into' vs. 'search inside oneself for support of'.
Tony said the same thing in different words. He talked about (again
not verbatim) 'changing oneself' instead of 'injecting oneself'.

It's a very fundamental difference, and I believe it is where Tony's and
my attitudes differ. I personally believe that either attitude can
produce bad results when enforced in the wrong context or when carried
to extremes. Thus, I acknowledge that one should think about what the
music is 'saying', or what it was meant to say when it was composed, or
what other people want it to say. But other aspects, such as what the
performer wants to 'say' for his/her own satisfaction, are valid also
(imo).

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