Klarinet Archive - Posting 000276.txt from 2008/11

From: "Alexander Brash" <brash@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] After Drucker
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:15:31 -0500

It's not great at all! Needless to say. But since I have been very noisy
on the list as of late - I'll submit my mozart 3rd movement that got me
into Aspen back in the day, so hopefully it's not offensive! This is from
several years ago.

http://www.alexanderbrash.com/mozart3.mp3

Yeah, just listened again, not at all great.

I have a recital at Weill Hall @ Carnegie on March 22nd if anyone wants to
further mock me. I'll be playing the Brahms quintet with some of my loser
Juilliard friends. :)

Alex

On Wed, November 19, 2008 1:09 pm, Tony Pay wrote:
> On 19 Nov, "Alexander Brash" <brash@-----.edu> wrote:
>
>> > As for the wider issues: do you not know how much any THINKING human
>> being
>> > on
>> > the planet has HATED the last 8 years?
>>
>> In before flames!
>>
>> > Actually, I don't think there's THAT much of an anti-American slant in
>> > them.
>> > But it's true that I HATE the self-promoting stance, which arises very
>> > naturally in much American culture, as I explained. ("How to SELL
>> slow
>> > movements" from Howard Klug, for example.)
>> >
>>
>> Well, I for one love it. At the end of the day, we are just entertainers
>> who want to give people something meaningful and/or beautiful to latch
>> onto in a world that sucks and will utterly wreck you again and again.
>> If
>> shameless, ridiculous, self-promotion helps accomplish that, so be it. I
>> strongly reject, at this phase in my life, any thought that music has
>> any
>> real intellectual "higher" purpose, or that there is any value in what
>> we
>> do besides how others will be moved and measure it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, November 19, 2008 12:36 pm, Tony Pay wrote:
>> > On 19 Nov, "James Sclater" <Sclater@-----.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> >> After reading Tony's most recent posts, I have a few
>> questions/comments:
>> >>
>> >> 1. Are we to assume that orchestral auditions in the UK are not an
>> >> "equal opportunity for everyone" situation? If not, how are they
>> usually
>> >> handled? If so, how are they different from how things are handled in
>> >> the US? (I didn't know there was a "standard.")
>> >
>> > The way (I think) it's usually done in the UK is to use the audition
>> as a
>> > way
>> > of finding players that the orchestra may want to trial. Then, the
>> trial
>> > period, involving the chosen players, goes on for a long time -- even
>> as
>> > much
>> > as years.
>> >
>> > Therefore, everyone has an equal opportunity to be HEARD to start
>> with;
>> > and
>> > then the PROPER questions have time to be asked.
>> >
>> > Your questions 2, 3 and 4 have, I think, been answered in my posts.
>> >
>> >> 5. Why the anti-American slant in these posts?
>> >
>> > You really have to ask this?
>> >
>> > Actually, I don't think there's THAT much of an anti-American slant in
>> > them.
>> > But it's true that I HATE the self-promoting stance, which arises very
>> > naturally in much American culture, as I explained. ("How to SELL
>> slow
>> > movements" from Howard Klug, for example.)
>> >
>> > Of course, it's not confined to the US. Recently, under the wonderful
>> > Vladimir Jurowski, my orchestra (the OAE) played a programme that
>> included
>> > Alexander Rudin playing the Tchaikowsky Rococo Variations for 'cello
>> and
>> > orchestra. Intitially wanting to say "But, he's not REALLY a
>> Russian!"
>> > the
>> > players finally decided on, "He's a REAL Russian!"
>> >
>> > I think you need to hear that, for us, Americans are in pretty much
>> the
>> > same
>> > boat; and it amuses me to make that clear to those of you who don't
>> know.
>> > (I
>> > find that those of you who do know, just smile and shrug.)
>> >
>> > As for the wider issues: do you not know how much any THINKING human
>> being
>> > on
>> > the planet has HATED the last 8 years?
>> >
>> > Tony
>> > --
>> >
>> > _________ Tony Pay
>> > |ony:-) 79 Southmoor Rd
>> > | |ay Oxford OX2 6RE
>> > tel/fax 01865 553339
>> > mobile +44(0)7790 532980
>> tony.p@-----.org
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> What extraordinary care you take with what you offer us in your post.
>
> It makes me wonder what your playing is like;-)
>
> Tony
> --
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> _________ Tony Pay
> |ony:-) 79 Southmoor Rd
> | |ay Oxford OX2 6RE
> tel/fax 01865 553339
> mobile +44(0)7790 532980 tony.p@-----.org
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