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Author: Alphie
Date: 2003-03-24 20:41
Last Saturday I played the Mozart quintett on classical Basset Clarinet for the first time in many years. It struck me how different the atmosphere is when you perform it on period instruments. The closeness to the music, the smoothe attacs, the easyness in staccato and the tender sound of the gut strings with a good quartet work all together into an atmosphere that I never experience otherwise. This is what the Danish bassoonist and music philosofer Peter Bastian would call an "unreductable experience", meaning an experience that can't be explained but have to be experienced to fully understand what it does to you.
Just wanted to ventilate an experience that made me proud being a part of. The satisfaction for me to have the option of playing period instruments is something I'm glad for and sometimes gives me that little extra arouseness that happends twice every ten years.
Alphie
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Author: larryb
Date: 2003-03-24 20:45
how nice
I'm glad you used the unusual word "arouseness" as opposed to the more common "arousal"
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2003-03-24 21:10
I wish I'd been at your concert! Who made your classical basset clarinet?
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2003-03-25 11:30
Proximity and respect from an audience met by preparation and committment from the players... stir gently and present warm.
I would caution against considering musical pieces as museum pieces... Moz wooda used synths and Chapman stick for lead were he born today.
I'm a big believer in playing softly, to keep the audience rapt.
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Author: Alphie
Date: 2003-03-25 12:30
Synonymous Botch!
Moz wooda written differently were he born today using a synth. I bet it would feel very strange using a 18C style basset clarinet for that music.
Alphie
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Author: Alphie
Date: 2003-03-25 20:10
Liquorice, the basset clarinet was made by Toru Sakamoto, a Japanese clarinetist and maker who used to live in Holland.
Alphie
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-03-25 22:57
Hmmm on the "unreductable" terminology which is beyond my sphere. However, I understand what you'all mean and share your enthusiasm for period musicianship. I also agree with the sentiment that "experience is the best teacher". In fact it's the only teacher. There's a line in "Der Rosenkavalier" that expresses the sentiment.
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Author: Alphie
Date: 2003-03-26 09:09
I think what Peter Bastian who created the term "unreductable experience" in his book "Into the Music" (my translation of both terms) means is an experience in a field that for a person causes a sence of enlightment that leads into a feeling of strong conviction and a feeling of truth, based on a strong subjective feeling of arouseness that is difficult or impossible to explain for somebody who haven't experienced a similar thing.
This can be a usual phenomenon in fields like arts, philosophy, politics and religion. In specially politics and religion this can be somewhat danderous if the emotion reaches the point of revelation, depending on what kind of message that causes this. In the end we're maybe talking suicide bombers. Luckily this is very far from classical basset clarinet.
Alphie
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