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Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2007-04-29 18:58
......"You play beautifully!"
"Nothing compared to you. You are an ARTIST...intonation, vibrato, stretch...you think I'm crazy, but I know music. It's the one thing that makes me humble."
"Prissy...our leader keeps saying my intonation's prissy...."
"PRECISION. Precision is not prissy, it is the soul of passion. Passion without precision: CHAOS. Look at your thumb, your sublime thumb position. You really keep the pressure on, don't you? Most MEN can't, but you....you've got the most beautiful callus. THIS hand...this is your failure. Your bowing sucks."
"My bowing...why?"
"Your spiccato sounds like marcato, your legato like detache'....you kill the passion. Let it go! What are you holding back for? These are not just notes that you're playing, they're phrases, human outcries!"
"But I understand that!....and I practice till my fingers bleed!...."
"I know, I know...."
"It's all those sixteenth notes of the allegro, I just can't do it...."
"Yes, you can..."
"I can't..."
"Trust me. Try, try....let it go, what are you afraid of? You have great passion in you...let it out! I can take it!......I want it!...........................
:-)
Tony
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-04-29 19:58
I forgot they used the Dvorak in that bit!
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2007-04-29 21:37
Mr. Pay,
does this mean that you spent time, like Reginald Kell, twisted up over a fiddle before declaring your indepencence?
Bob Phillips
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Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2007-04-29 22:09
Bob Phillips wrote:
>> does this mean that you spent time, like Reginald Kell, twisted up over a fiddle before declaring your indepencence?>>
No, alas; but I several times in recent years toyed with the idea of declaring my independence in the opposite direction by twisting myself up over a 'cello.
Perhaps tomorrow....:-)
Tony
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-04-29 23:05
"but I several times in recent years toyed with the idea of declaring my independence in the opposite direction by twisting myself up over a 'cello."
Not by tripping over their floorspike anchoring device (that home-made bit of wood with a couple of bits of string contraption) I trust.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2007-04-29 23:52
Apropos of nothing, I hope: I once saw a mouse clamber out the f-hole of a man's cello, scuttle in confusion into the middle of the quartet, spin around in a panic and then race between the violinists and dive underneath a sofa, from whence came more scuttling noises. Mouse, apparently finding egress, was never seen again. Cellist, who has been playing quite well and has observed none of this: "Why are we stopping? What--?"
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2007-04-30 13:22
OK, it's worth saying where that came from, as no-one else has (Chris P obviously KNEW) -- it's a wonderful scene between Susan Sarandon and Jack Nicholson in 'The Witches of Eastwick'. Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer also star.
Thoroughly recommended, especially for what happens just after that dialogue -- but indeed for all of it, including the score by John Williams. It would have been a very different film without his contribution, I'd say.
Tony
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Author: Bill
Date: 2007-04-30 22:48
Veronica Cartwright spitting up those cherry pits ... OMG!
Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)
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Author: sherman
Date: 2007-05-01 03:42
If only the alien baby bursting out of Hurt had had a little ugly clarinet clutched in its double lip, then history would have been made instead of these tender kinderscenen.....the cadenza from Peter could have been heard muffled , then making a huge crescendo and accelerando as it sprang forth...............
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2007-05-03 15:25
Thanks to this thread, I re-watched THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK (1987) last night, having not seen it in more than a decade. That movie has reached its awkward age, with feminist tropes that sound dated now, but not quite dated enough for nostalgia. Also, the moviemakers didn't bother to make good excuses for their many violations of the traditional laws of thaumaturgy. Still--Jack Nicholson's wonderful as "just your average horny little devil;" Veronica Cartwright chews rug with the best; and there's excellent acting from Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Love the soundtrack, which includes clips from recordings by Horowitz, Perlman and others in addition to John Williams's excellent score. That score startled me--I hadn't remembered it in detail, but when I listened last night, I recognized an enormous amount that Williams has recycled into the HARRY POTTER scores.
Does it bug anyone else to see musical instruments go up in flames, even if the instruments look like cheapos?
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: Max S-D
Date: 2007-05-04 19:08
Lelia Loban wrote:
> I recognized an enormous amount that Williams has recycled into the HARRY
> POTTER scores.
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He seems to do that a lot. He's a good composer (I like his clarinet concerto), but half of his scores sound kind of like he just recycled Star Wars and ET (and, apparently, The Witches of Eastwick).
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