Klarinet Archive - Posting 000181.txt from 2007/05

From: "MPWord -- Vann Turner" <vjoet@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: Kell revisited
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 17:53:53 -0400

Ted,

I agree: Music is an interpretive art, not a reproductive one. (Though it is
probably safer to talk about reeds on this list!)

Since so little of the actual sound can be notated, composers rely on the
taste and sensitivity of the performer to bring to life the penned notes. It
becomes a partnership between composer and performer.

I stand with Leonard Bernstein in his lament that Harnoncourt appropriated
to period instruments the classics and the Baroque. Toscanini conducting the
Partita and Fugue is glorious, and a partnership between Bach, the arranger
and the orchestra.

(I'm wondering about the 2 wrong chords Tony mentioned. Repeated twice, it
was of course a conscious decision, not a sloppy one. I'm wondering if the
parts they played from had a misprint, or if they consulted the manuscript
and found their printed version wrong. I'm not a musicologist, so I'll leave
the investigating to the scholars.)

Best wishes,
Vann Joe
(amateur)

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