Klarinet Archive - Posting 000490.txt from 2010/11
From: "Peter Gentry" <peter.gentry@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sabine Meyer & movement
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:04:11 -0500
Yes a performance with no physical component is lacking one element of
communication and therefore less satisfactory. But physical expression is
best when it is relevant to the music and does not dominate or detract from
it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Taylor, Noel [mailto:r.n.taylor@-----.uk]
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 10:46 AM
To: The Klarinet Mailing List
Subject: Re: [kl] Sabine Meyer & movement
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From: Jennifer Jones [mailto:helen.jennifer@-----.com]
<SNIP>
I say, if it floats your boat, move. Don't worry about it, especially
if you have other things to worry about. Sabine Meyer's moving
performance should serve as a reassurance, that it is perfectly ok
until *you* decide that *you* don't like the aesthetic.
-Jennifer
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Just to say I saw the other oft-mentioned 'culprit', Martin Frost, a couple
of nights ago at the Wigmore Hall and, of course, I paid particular
attention to his movement. It seems to me that he uses movement in very
specific ways. When a phrase is sinewy he will curl his left shoulder
upwards; mostly his movements are quite staccato in character - he will
often divide a small passage into a kind of call and response, and he almost
acts this out by physically expressing the nuance of each statement, almost
as if it were two people engaging in a conversation. The movements begin in
advance of the feeling or idea he is trying to express, so perhaps in his
case I would guess (and I don't claim any more insight than that) that he is
doing it for a variety of reasons :
1) His movements are extremely suggestive, eloquent even, and this
helps him supply extra coherence to the audience to the precise musical idea
he is aiming for.
2) In finding the physical expression of the musical idea he finds he
can also capture the exact expressive nuance of the clarinet that he is
aiming for more effectively
3) By having a semi-choreographed exposition of his interpretation of
the music he can re-connect more easily with his interpretive intentions -
almost like using mnemonics as a memory aid.
Those are my completely subjective impressions. Personally I could watch him
perform all-day long and feel nothing but pleasure.
Noel
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