Klarinet Archive - Posting 000036.txt from 2010/11

From: John Dablin <jdablin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] What's Wrong with "Contemporary Classical"?
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:15:33 -0400

On 03/11/10 16:34, Peter Gentry wrote:

> I have heard young professionals being very scathing of baroque composers -
> "the music is boring and too easy". Much is easy on the ear and to read but
> is difficulty the only measure of worth in music?

A friend (30-ish) said much the same thing recently, and I used to feel
the same at his age. It's only now that I seem to have the maturity to
listen with "baroque ears" (not truly possible, I know), and grasp the
emotional content that's subtly hidden within the formal styles of such
music. I'm sure many people mature much faster than he and I!

And who said baroque music was all easy to play?!

(As an aside, I think I was scarred by playing Handel's Water Music and
Fireworks Music at school, playing for a long time with an immature
embouchure getting and getting very tired).

John Dablin
Aylesbury UK
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