Klarinet Archive - Posting 000069.txt from 2007/05

From: Hartmut Gehrke-Tschudi <hgtschudi@-----.de>
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 9 May 2007 21:01:01 -0000 Issue 7256
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:29:42 -0400

klarinet-digest-help@-----.org wrote:
> klarinet Digest 9 May 2007 21:01:01 -0000 Issue 7256
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> Topics (messages 90678 through 90681):
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> Re: Looking for Eb Clarinet Parts
> 90678 by: hns692.aol.com
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> Music and Politics
> 90679 by: Vincent DiMalta
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> The Central Band of the Royal British Legion - IN CONCERT; Felixstowe
> 90680 by: Caroline Docherty
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> corrected email reply addrerss
> 90681 by: Yakima Valley Community Band
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> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 06:13:49 EDT
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> From: hns692@-----.com
> Subject: Re: [kl] Looking for Eb Clarinet Parts
> Message-ID: <d10.a0a1d43.3372f8dd@-----.com>
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> If you have a better email address, please inform us. I tried last night to
> reply off-line and it came back to me. I do have some of the parts and
> elaborated on the returned email. Thanks!
>
> Lee Ann Hansen
> Principal Eb Clarinet
> First John Philip Sousa Memorial Band
> _hns692@-----.com)
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> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 08:55:16 -0400
> To: "klarinet" <klarinet@-----.org>
> From: "Vincent DiMalta" <atlamid@-----.com>
> Subject: Music and Politics
> Message-ID: <BAY106-DAV161CE4557FB6D9E0F5396ABD3B0@-----.gbl>
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> Let me be clearer, the prior statement is not about Wagner in particular, it
> is about the affecting of viewpoint and art by dealing with analysis of a
> person, which may or may not be fully correct. Do we have the right to
> review and come to our conclusions... absolutely! Otherwise all those who
> have fought so hard for this freedom would have died in vain. Is this a
> road which limits our perceptions as to the value of the art. I think so.
> Preconceptions have done this and continue to do so. If on the basis of
> this path you choose to negate the art, understand what is being done and
> why. Again this is the right of all to choose. However, there have been
> many persons who have been denied their due while they were living due to
> the politics of the moment, and others raised to questionable elevated
> status due to the same politics of the moment. But this get us into
> politics, not music. I understand there is and have probably always been a
> relationship between the issues, and affirm each person's right to choose
> what to support and not to support. I ask you to understand that the process
> of analysis of a person and the politics may have the result of affectation
> of viewpoint and perceptions, which may negate the art in persons' minds.
> This limits the response to the art due to the preconceptions.
> On an another side, the analysis of the person and the time may appear to
> enhance and elevate the understanding of the person, and give the impression
> of enhancing the art. In this situation the art may be overvalued based upon
> overly positive attributions. Both are related to preconceptions, and may
> distort the valuing of the art as art. While it is very difficult to come
> music/art without preconceptions, I question that these preconceptions truly
> add or subtract from the art itself, while it will affect our response to
> the art.
>
> Since this is a viewpoint that appears not accepted. I will cease to
> respond to any further statements. I ask you to respect the right of a
> person to present their viewpoint, even it you do not agree with it. Vince
>
>
Vince
I fully agree with your argument. Thanks, Hartmut

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