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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2015-06-17 17:59
What do you expect us to say? You put up an unrehearsed performance with string players who were mostly sight-reading and not up to the difficulties of their parts. The intonation was painful and the musicianship was pretty much absent. It was no fun to listen to.
Your technique was nearly perfect, but you played it as if it was a concerto. Your tone was glaring, with only few moment of relief. You played some phrase endings nicely, with of course no listening or response from the string players.
You do yourself no favor by putting up stuff like this. Play us the Stravinsky Three Pieces, or the Martino Set for Clarinet. Better, get with a really good pianist who know the part and play us some Brahms or Weber to show you know how to make music together with another musician on your level.
I'm tough on you because you obviously can do better. So DO BETTER.
Ken Shaw
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Author: maxopf
Date: 2015-06-17 21:22
Thanks for the advice. I should've seen that this wasn't a good performance to post; I guess I was hoping mostly for clarinet-specific advice, but it seems the strings and the lack of rehearsal distracted from that. Unfortunately they were the best string players I could find who were available to rehearse at all, everyone else turned down my offer. I think I'll just go ahead and take this post down.
I can't help but wonder if some of the harshness of tone you're hearing is due to the phone mic... I listened to another recording that was taken, and everything is less bright. I do agree that I overplayed a bit considering this is chamber music.
Post Edited (2015-06-17 21:56)
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-06-18 03:44
I want to apologize if I had caused things to veer off too negatively.
Gosh, aren't we older folks supposed to "nurture" the next generation?
We're not going to be around that much longer.
..............Paul Aviles
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Author: maxopf
Date: 2015-06-18 04:23
No, I actually appreciated both of your comments, they gave me some good stuff to think about. I just realized that this particular performance probably wasn't the best one for me to put out there for feedback, so I decided to delete this post and make another one later when I have a better performance.
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Author: kthln.hnsn
Date: 2015-06-18 05:17
Sometimes it's ok to post a performance that wasn't so good, it's redundant to always post videos of yourself playing perfectly and then asking for opinions. People fishing for compliments is one of my pet peeves, personally. Also you gotta learn to make do with what you have, such as your case with the inexperienced strings and you perhaps being unfamiliar with your particular instrument. It's part of the growing process and learning from past mistakes/regrets. It would have been a good teaching moment for you to help those string players with following head nodding and whatnot. But I would have to agree with what the others said before. Good effort though and I saw some of your other videos on your youtube feed and I feel that, no this was not your best performance but you live and learn and then move on.
P.S. I should mention I saw your video earlier before you deleted it, but only now had a chance to reply.
Post Edited (2015-06-18 05:19)
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