Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2017-11-07 17:48
>> I'm sorry that you had a bad time with your suggestion for an article in the ICA journal. >>
In fact, it was Gillespie who invited me to contribute. We both played a part in a productive international correspondence on the Klarinet list about a dubious note in Garbarino's edition of the Castelnuovo-Tedesco sonata, and he said that if I ever wanted to write something for The Clarinet it would be very welcome.
He suggested that I might write an article in what he called the 'Masterclass' series: various supposed clarinet authorities gave their versions of the truth about the great pieces – Mozart concerto, Brahms sonatas and so on. As you can probably gather from my usual stances here, I didn't think much of this idea. I proposed, instead, to present my reasons why I thought it counterproductive to add ANOTHER layer of printed dogmatism to the musical texts we have – a sort of 'anti-masterclass' masterclass – if indeed it's at all appropriate in any case to call such articles 'masterclasses'. Real masterclasses, in which students play, are another matter.
Anyway, Gillespie wrote back and said that his Masterclass series was an entirely appropriate idea, and had proved to be very beneficial for students reading it. I asked him how he knew that, but he didn't reply.
After a bit I wrote again, and said that if he didn't like my proposal, there was something I'd already written that hadn't been published anywhere, and would he like that, instead?
I sent him my effort, the essential substance of which you can now read here:
http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/lookup.php/Klarinet/2001/05/000572.txt
...but received not even the courtesy of a reply.
When I subscribed to The Clarinet for a year, I started to see something of the true situation.
Tony
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