Klarinet Archive - Posting 000485.txt from 2005/08

From: "David Blumberg" <blummy@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Composers as teachers
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:08:18 -0400

Tony Pay wrote:

So now, am I, according to your great theory of what performers do, creating
enough space for 'my personality' in all of this?

And when I listen to some little unthinking dipshit little orchestral oboe
player, expressing what he inappropriately 'feels' at some moment in a
large-scale structure that he has no idea about -- should I *applaud* his
SELF-EXPRESSION?

Bollocks I should.

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Yup. Rampal wrote about over expression being equal to a "greasy bag of
fries".

David Blumberg
http://www.mytempo.com

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