Klarinet Archive - Posting 000191.txt from 2007/05

From: "Ted" <tedcasher@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Kell revisited
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 13:20:07 -0400

Tony---looking back at it, methinks you stated it right. I was wearing the
wrong cleats, so to speak! Even while I was studying with Kell, and playing
chamber music at Aspen, I always had a jazz gig at night.

The pull of jazz was always too strong to resist.

Kell told me, long ago: "Learn to play on bad reeds!" He was a great one
for gathering reed rush from the banks of streams, while he went fishing.
He kept a shoebox full of Vandorens, and kept the reed rush in the reed
boxes!

Cheers, TC

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Pay" <tony.p@-----.org>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Kell revisited

> 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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