Klarinet Archive - Posting 000091.txt from 2006/05

From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?sarah=20elbaz?=" <sarah@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Klezmer Clarinet Solo with Winds ensembles (Full BAnd)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 09:27:08 -0400


> -------Original Message-------
> From: Tski1128@-----.com
> Subject: Re: [kl] Klezmer Clarinet Solo with Winds ensembles (Full BAnd)
> Sent: 11 May '06 00:09
>
> In a message dated 5/11/2006 4:50:40 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> moshe_berlin@-----.net writes:
> I don't believe on playing klezmer with  notes, or with written arrangements.
> Real klezmer playing is by   reading  the faces of the audience and the
> players instead of reading  what  the notes tells.
> The notes themselves should represent only the  sketch of the piece, and the
> rest must be played by (and with)  heart.
>
> Moshe (Moussa) Berlin
>
> I don't believe in reading the audience's faces while playing!

The audiance Moshe Berlin is playing for is breathing Jewish music and he can feel and read them
because they have a different " cod".

I've been working in a clarinet course with Giora Feidman ( Moshe was there too). When Giora played we never knew how long he is going to play and which melodies - he simply "read" the audiance- started with the first tune and then felt what should be the next one.

Sarah

Watching  them
> sure, but they aren't going to give me any information that's going to  make
> a iota of difference in my interpretation. I am totally down with the  concept
> that solos are performed better when the soloist is performing from  memory,
> we would most likely find that this would not be the case with a 60  piece
> band or orchestra. If I'm working with my rhythm section, We'll sit down  and
> play for hours the tunes we know from memory.  If I'm performing  Buccolique, I
> want the chart and I damn sure want the pianist to have one!
>
> There are often postings, concerning Klezmer music, that try to  convince
> people that klezmer music is in someway different then any other type  of music.
> There are some stylistic differences surely, but the same elements  make a
> performance sublime, or suck. You have to know the music, have the  appropriate
> tone color, have the requisite technique and have an opinion to  state! If the
> it's what YOU think the composer was really trying to say, take a  stand and
> play it like that.  If you think you have an idea on how Naftule  Brandwein,
> would have played a frielach after his forth scotch, live on the edge  take a
> stand and give me your opinion.  What I hate is boring, non point of  view
> performances by clarinetists that think clarinets should sound like korg  tuners!
>
> But that's just my opinion
>
> Tom Puwalski, former soloist with the US Army Field Band, Clarinetist with  
> Lox&Vodka, and Author of "The Clarinetist's Guide to Klezmer"and most  recently
> by the order of the wizard of Oz, for supreme intelligence, a Masters  in
> Clarinet performance
>
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