Klarinet Archive - Posting 000095.txt from 2010/05

From: Martin Baxter <martinbaxter1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bobbing and Mozart
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 07:52:57 -0400

Dan
I am in complete agreement with you about how distracting this "snake charming" can be.I have had to stop going to concerts by the Manchester Camerata because I find the bobbing and weaving of their principal oboist so distracting that I cannot enjoy the music.
Martin
On 8 May 2010, at 17:21, Dan Leeson wrote:

> It would have been impossible for them to meet. Both were in France at
> different times. They could have met in England, but Mozart was an infant.
>
> Dan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <kurtheisig@-----.net>
> To: "The Klarinet Mailing List" <klarinet@-----.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 8:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Bobbing and Mozart
>
>
>>
>> Danny,
>>
>> Indeed, I was talking about the glass armonica. I wonder which spelling
>> franklin used?
>>
>> I was awaiting your reply.
>>
>> Mozart wasn't the only one to write for it.
>>
>> Didn't they actually meet once?
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net>
>>> Sent: May 7, 2010 11:12 PM
>>> To: The Klarinet Mailing List <klarinet@-----.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [kl] Bobbing and Mozart
>>>
>>> I think you are talking about the glass harmonica, which Franklin is
>>> credited with inventing.
>>> .
>>> Dan Leeson
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: <kurtheisig@-----.net>
>>> To: "The Klarinet Mailing List" <klarinet@-----.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 8:00 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [kl] Bobbing and Mozart
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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