Klarinet Archive - Posting 000119.txt from 2011/03

From: "Kathy Williams-DeVries" <kathleenwilliams76@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] To sit or stand, that is the question
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:50:00 -0400

I have been pondering a questioning in my mind for some time now. Is there
increased musicality when you stand, perhaps in front of an audience,
perhaps only in your practice room, and is this reduced when you sit?

I ponder this only because I have just made a recording of Albinoni Oboe
Concerti sitting down because my back is bad today, and on reviewing the
recording, I thought I had been emoting my little heart out, when in fact
the whole video sounded really bland.

Then I listen to my concert recordings, and there is an intensity in the
sound there that never happens in the practice room. I also notice during a
recent Brahms recording that I was more in time with the recorded piano part
of Music Minus One when I stood, Brahms being difficult to play with MMO
because you are relying on someone else's interpretation.

I'll put a couple of recordings side by side, keeping away from Mozart so as
not to cause offence and I would like constructive discussion on whether
standing up or sitting down makes a difference. Of course it may make no
difference and I am a bland unmusical player at the best of times, rendering
the above irrelevant.

Brahms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkA4RefBBNo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of1ectlgTpE

Weber

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8fTrPMq-AE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_JDe1AOoOw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXi_-s6cpDM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbwg2zluYJ0

Schumann

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVj8TkNo2DI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh59Ud341fU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u2EHmcSSLo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbO9K3EoFcU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAC_cIQKqm8

Cheating slightly, I have changed to a HD camera and some of those were live
performances with a living breathing accompanist, but I am trying to give
you the general ghist.

And how does this affect orchestral players?

Regards,

Kathy Williams-DeVries

BMusPerf (Hons)

Grad Dip Arts (Shakespeare Studies)

ATCL, LTCL

0404946839

www.kathywilliams76.com

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