Klarinet Archive - Posting 000097.txt from 2009/08

From: "Marcia Bundi" <msbundi357@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Solo pieces by living women composers
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:39:05 -0400

But the underlying question is, *why* do they want to program in a certain
way? What informs their decisions?

It's not really a moot point -- as you point out, not all music is to
everyone's taste, and it's a question all audience members will ask
themselves before they lay out the money and time to go to the concert. But
audience demographics are not the entire answer either, and it's those other
reasons that make this an interesting -- and valid -- question.

So yes, the short answer is that of course, that the sponsoring group wanted
it this way. But the (more interesting) question Danyel asked was, why?

Marcia in MT

> Marcia...
>
> Because...it's been decided...by the people sponsoring the event. The
> "pitch", the interest in a particular composer group, etc. It's their
> decision. Why question it? LOL
>
> The sponsor group wants to do a program of contemporary women composers.
> Deal done, right?
>
> Trust me....I hear/play a lot of concerts/recitals/clinics....using music
> that should never have been written (my opinion only...some folks love
> it)....no matter what the gender. :-)
>
> And I don't believe I sidestepped anything. It was programmed this
> way....because they wanted to...
>
> Forest
>
> Forest,
>
> I think your answer sidesteps Danyel's question. *Of course* whoever
> sponsors the performance gets to pick the program, but WHY the emphasis on
> certain biological/geographical/sociological/other parameters rather than
on
> the quality of the music itself? I have no ready answers (but plenty of
> guesses); it's like a good friend of mine who only buys books by female
> authors.
>
> Marcia in MT
>
> > Danyel
> >
> > You pay for the concert.....you get to program whatever you want. You
> > sponsor a program...and at it...program what you want...
> >
> > Someone else pays or sponsors a program.....they get to determine what's
> on
> > the program.
> >
> > Easy
> >
> > Forest
> >
> >> > What is this thing about women composers anyhow? What difference does
> > it make whether or not the composer of a particular piece has female
> > reproduction organs or not? Does that affect the sound of the music?
> > You could of cause play any modern clarinet solo claiming the
> > composer was a lady, wonder who could tell . . . play "(La!)
> > Sequenza" by Luciana Beria, for instance.
> >
> > It makes me mad that concerts are no longer programed to include good
> > music but such written by a specific sociological or even biological
> > in-group.
> >
> > Best
> > danyel

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