Klarinet Archive - Posting 000455.txt from 2010/11

From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sabine Meyer
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:36:32 -0500

Conductors must be judged differently. Their gestures are intended to
convey instructions to the players, although certainly an element of
showmanship is also involved (I do some conducting myself, so I know). I've
never seen a conductor gesture to the point of being distracting, though,
whereas Meyer's gyrations look contrived and overdone and VERY distracting
to me. Frost's squirming, even if genuine, ought to be controlled. It may
not be phony, but it makes me uncomfortable watching him. Meyer and Frost
both have excellent playing qualities highly suitable for RADIO and
RECORDING. For live performance and TV? Not so much.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sarah elbaz
> Subject: Re: [kl] Sabine Meyer
>
> I don't remember that anyone complained about the movements of this
> (great!) musician
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK6gGWMnTZI&feature=related
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogJFXqYEYd8&feature=related
> or his folower
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23zveX7QRpI&feature=related
>
> and most people think that this clarinetist is great (and I agree)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1btdMkXIruQ
>
> When I wrote convincing I meant that I belive that her movements are
> sincere, I don't think that it's a show for the audiance. You can't
> fake musicality.
>

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