Klarinet Archive - Posting 000277.txt from 2008/11

From: "David Moldawer" <moldawer@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] After Drucker
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:20:15 -0500

You sure you've got that date right? Not the 21st?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Alexander Brash <brash@-----.edu> wrote:
> 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
>
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> 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
>> --
>>
>> _________ 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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