Klarinet Archive - Posting 000056.txt from 2007/10

From: "Daniel Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: the effect of technology
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:13:41 -0400

That is precisely the point I was making, Margaret. And having heard those
things when I was a kid, I think the performance practices stuck with me,
without my being aware of just how awful those practices were. In fact,
they were not even performance practices. Instead they were alterations
attacking the very heart of the music, and taken for the sole reason of
fitting something onto a 78 rpm record. But when that record is transferred
to a CD, the reasons for those alterations become lost.

Dan Leeson
dnleeson@-----.net
SKYPE: dnleeson

-----Original Message-----
From: Margaret Thornhill [mailto:clarinetstudio@-----.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 2:44 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Re: the effect of technology

Dan,

If you think this is bad,check out the RDG Grenadilla CD of historical
clarinet recordings for the Schubert "Shepherd on the Rock" with Prosper
Mimart and soprano Isabel French. In order to fit on a 78 record, there
are major cuts in the clarinet "introduction"-- which must have seemed
dispensible to the producers.
I'm sure this sort of thing was extremely common.

Margaret Thornhill

http://www.margaretthornhill.com

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