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Re: Amazing concerto

Author: clarnibass
Date: 2007-04-20 06:11

I've never heard of Martin Frost until I accidently saw him on YouTube. The little that I heard from him was great, and I thought he was very high level musicain and had interesting ideas.

"Yeah but have you heard his Copland? Unconventional in places, and not in the good way."

This is good for learning if you can explain to yourself specifically what you liked and didn't like and learn, even more globally (i.e. for any music) the ideas of why you thought it was bad, but I don't think this makes other things he has made worth any less. I think it is good that at least some people are doing more experimental things and trying to create new music and ideas.

"But the truth is, there are many highly trained clarinetists out there who can and do perform the Copland and Brahms - why do we need more of that?"

I can understand this, but who is "we"? I mean, musicians don't play one thing or another because "we" need them to. Every person chooses what to play and what music to make, mostly because of their own personality. Some players like and feel better staying in tradition. Some players want to perform for an audience and to play with others but are not interested at all in actually creating their own music. Some have music iceas of their own they are trying to create, which sometimes will be very experimental. Etc. etc. Just different approaches by people with different personalities and ideas. So IMO "we" don't need more or less of one thing or the other, but take whatever you want from whoever you want.

Personaly when I see a comment like Morrigan's I prefer more specific explaination about what was wrong with it.

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