Klarinet Archive - Posting 000189.txt from 2007/05

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Kell revisited
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:57:57 -0400

On 22 May, "Ted" <tedcasher@-----.net> wrote:

> ...when I heard various musicologists argue about the whichness of what,
> in regard to the intentions of the composer v.s. "ego insertion," I came
> down fully on the side of ego insertion.

Arguments IN THOSE TERMS are certainly counterproductive, as I've explained
here before.

> My viewpoint was, and is, each composer gave unto me a cantus firmus, upon
> which to impose my own angst or joy, depending on how I felt at the time I
> put my clarinet in my face.
>
> That's why I play jazz. My last symphonic clarinet performance was under
> the baton of Paul Hindemith.

Switching to playing jazz certainly resolves the problem -- or rather, the
problem as you saw it. But you need a more inclusive view, that doesn't have
you 'imposing' anything.

> After that, I hung up my cleats, so to speak.

You were wearing the wrong ones anyway;-)

Tony
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