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RE: emotions

Author: David Dow Symphony NB
Date: 2002-05-19 16:16

Interesting topic and muck a subject of debate among musicoligists as well as players...interesting when I was younger the emotional quality of playing was much sought after and this in the early 80s. I'm not that old, but one thing is for certain there is a variety of musical tempermants out there and sometimes they reflect the values of our society and where it is going. For certain Western Art Music is on a decline, Brahms and Mozart are not the norm when you compare it to Vanilla Ice and all that sort of thing, but within a broader context just as valid and if not more so. The tradition behind Art Music per se has been rooted in Church and Family, and despite the move from music from church to the home in the mid 1700s with the advent of the piano by the 1850s we really have here one of the cornerstones of our western ways. Much of our music is rooted in the desire to look upwards and inward and therefore it is a deeply rooted personal experience for everyone. when music is enjoyable it may speak on many levels..for example the Requiem of Mozart says things about death and life and therefore should and has to be an emotional experience...the clarinet player then has to realize that the emotion has to be imparted through our performance and also our technique must reflect intention and desire to speak on a metaphysical and emotional context. In recent years the music schools are just popping out technicians and this will also never do as well...the tradition of performing also must be part of a broader way of reflecting our humanity and sympathy for our fellow mankind/humankind. The disaster is that the world is in a defintive bind and music is one of the things that make our world much easier to take....sadly musicians are sometimes only reflecting the value of the worldly by the useless pursuit of endless technique which has to be tempered with artisty and musicality. Music is a reflection of what all of hopefully value and that is beauty and peace. How does this relate to the clarinet? In every eway that can be imagined.

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