Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-02-19 03:04
jonathan.wallaceadams wrote:
> how
> does one have a mature sound and how does one view a mature
> piece?
You probably won't be particularly happy with the answer. You develop maturity in anything through experience. We haven't heard you play the Poulenc, so we don't know what your teacher heard and was describing. But it's important that you've now had a first exposure to the piece than it is that you don't play it like a seasoned soloist. I'd be monumentally surprised if you play anything after two years' study with maturity or real insight. But, if you are truly able technically to handle this level of music, then all the more power to you for tackling it.
Keep working and keep listening to established players - not to imitate or copy their playing, but to hear the variety of styles that come out of different approaches and the ways in which those experienced players project their ideas about a piece to you. There is never one way to do anything musical.
Hopefully, your teachers over the next few years will give you ideas to think about without trying to dictate specific musical gestures. I remember being frustrated to the point of wanting to scream by a teacher, who was filling in for my major clarinet professor, as he dictated every crescendo, diminuendo, ritardando, accelerando, etc. and how much to make of each one. He would make me play the same passage over and over until it was exactly, perfectly....the way he would have played it.
Just keep playing, keep adjusting what you hear for yourself doesn't work, keep refining what does seem to be working, and give everything time to bake. And while you're at it, try to enjoy the experience.
Karl
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