Klarinet Archive - Posting 000066.txt from 2010/05

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Bobbing and Mozart
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 23:00:33 -0400

Didn't Mozart write for Ben Franklin's instrument?

-----Original Message-----
>From: Fred <vze2bsbs@-----.net>
>Sent: May 7, 2010 1:16 PM
>To: klarinet@-----.com
>Subject: [kl] Bobbing and Mozart
>
>Here is an interesting link I got from the Italian clarinet list:
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbXnIBzxsEA
>
>The musicians are wonderful players, but so distracting with the
>ridiculous bobbing and looking at each other that I had to look
>away. Andre Rieu's group does the same thing and I hate it. It is
>disrespect for the music, or perhaps the feeling that the music
>cannot stand on its own and needs some sort of "entertaining"
>embellishment. Obviously aimed at the less sophisticated music
>listener. Wasn't it Toscanini that was very animated at his
>REHEARSALS to get his points across to the musicians, but at the
>actual performance he was very laid back, "to let the music speak for
>itself"? He was correct.
>
>On the other hand- I think this is the first time I saw the Mozart
>played on an ancient instrument- probably as Mozart would have heard
>it- I wonder what Mozart would have said if he heard it today on the
>modern clarinets. Maybe he would not have liked it. Who knows.
>
>Speaking about Mozart, I recently took a trip to Philadelphia to see
>the historic district (2 hour drive for me). I realized there that
>Mozart was alive at the same time as the birth of our country! Ben
>Franklin could have had lunch with him!!
>
>Don't know what brought this on- maybe I'm getting old :)
>
>
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