Klarinet Archive - Posting 000278.txt from 2008/11

From: "Alexander Brash" <brash@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] After Drucker
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:23:21 -0500

Quite sure, it's at 8:30.

Alex

http://www.carnegiehall.org/SiteCode/Events/MonthCalendar.aspx?selecteddate=03012009&s=c4

"Yevsi Arts Chamber Music Concert"

On Wed, November 19, 2008 1:20 pm, David Moldawer wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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