Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-06-08 13:45
Tony Pay wrote,
>>So I maintain it's worthwhile to continue pointing out -- even to High School students -- that intelligent and thoughtful performance of the Mozart concerto involves accepting the 'thin notation' model rather than the 'choose between editions' model. Of course, it's whistling in the wind; when exactly the contrary attitude is so prevalent at even the highest level of American pedagogy, what can we expect of our poor High School teachers?
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>>Perhaps we could say that, IN AN IDEAL WORLD, it would be more appropriate that High School students be encouraged to defer to Mozart's systems than that Mozart's music be forced to defer to the systems of American High Schools;-)
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I agree, I did note your ;-) and I also agree that "the contrary attitude" is prevalent in the USA, but other attitudes--in fact, just about any attitudes one could formulate--are also prevalent here, not only on the subject of how to play Mozart but on nearly any other topic one might raise. That's why the subject keeps coming up over and over and over, and no doubt will continue to arise.
But as for that ideal world, you know the old saying about herding cats. Not only the attitudes but the rigor of the attitudes varies so enormously here that persuading cats to herd cockroaches into orderly lines and dance the Conga with them might be more feasible than persuading Americans to teach in any particular way. We've got dictatorial pedagogues; we've got permissives who express their own insecurities by advising even the smallest children to interpret music in whatever ways their hearts desire; we've got seekers after Ultimate Truth who change their gods (and their students' embouchures, reeds and mouthpieces) every two weeks, we've got....
(I'm visualizing a stage full of people costumed as instructors--wearing everything from cut-off bluejeans to designer suits to birthday suits--striking attitudes in a satirical sketch ripped off from Gilbert & Sullivan.... "Basingstoke!")
Tony, have you ever travelled across the USA by bus or by car? Airplane flight masks the huge size of this country. Most of us here are genetic and cultural mutts. I don't think there's any such thing as a North American attitude about anything. I love your 20-year-old recording--and I'd love for you to record the concerto again with the OAE, now that you've described how your playing has changed. Then you could watch people here and on the Klarinet list bicker over which version's best.
Lelia
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Post Edited (2008-06-08 13:49)
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