Klarinet Archive - Posting 000339.txt from 2005/08

From: "Margaret Thornhill" <clarinetstudio@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re:composers as teachers
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:45:48 -0400

tony pay wrote In part):

>...the 'going deeply into the music' that
Bryan speaks of above involves taking what we have from those composers --
namely, their 'texts' -- very seriously, at whatever level we currently
play.
We ask ourselves what the music that corresponds to the texts is 'trying to
be'. In doing so, we grow beyond what abilities we currently have.

What a fine reminder of what this is all about

Margaret

www.margaretthornhill.com

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