Klarinet Archive - Posting 000026.txt from 2006/03

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] The Gran Partitta Festival
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:30:23 -0500

What I was suggesting was not by any means a criticism. What
they said was that by knowing the new, we get to learn the old
better. Perhaps I should have said it was a role reversal in
which we are always told that by learning the old we get to learn
and appreciate the new more.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Krelove [mailto:karlkrelove@-----.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 6:24 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] The Gran Partitta Festival

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dnleeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
> ... The day before the event there was a panel discussing
> Schoenberg and Beethoven with Julie Levine of the Met and BSO
> as part of the panel. It was searing analysis of the use of
> contemporary music in enlgihtening the old.
>

Is this last sentence your characterization or theirs? And in
either case,
what does it mean?

Karl

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