Author: fskelley
Date: 2014-04-26 00:33
Tony- that link is fascinating reading, much in there is new/news to me. All sounds right to me also. And toward the end I found this jewel. I can't speak for it's accuracy or universality, but it rings true to me. I think this may be a quote of a quote in the text, not directly from Daryl.
"Curiously, most orchestral players in my experience actively don't want the chance to interpret: they just want to turn up to work and let someone else – the conductor – take decisions, and consequently any flak that's going. Orchestral players can be a sad bunch. As Cleo Laine's bass player/pianist and later as a member of Electric Phoenix I performed with most of the great orchestras of the world, and, more revealingly, rehearsed with them: often a dispiriting experience. (There are wonderful exceptions such as the Berlin Philharmonic.) I remember thinking to myself on many occasions, are these people, resentful, defeated, the same who as youngsters – perhaps only ten years ago – badgered and nagged their parents to let them go to music college because music was so great within them they knew they must devote their lives to it? What happened?
What happened was, they joined an orchestra and surrendered any interpretative freedom: they were forced over and over again to reproduce someone else's interpretation and suppress their own invention: until finally they lost the will to do anything else but parrot and whinge. In the end, if you let someone else risk taking the flak, they get all the artistic satisfaction too. Forbidden to improvise, the musician in us dies."
The prospect of this, plus several other factors, kept me out of music school. Oh well, I have enjoyed engineering.
Stan in Orlando
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