Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2023-10-03 01:57
I was working on a reply to the other thread along these same lines. Having grown up in the '60s and matured as a player in the '70s, I have to say that the playing I heard in live concerts in a concert hall (usually the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, but occasionally other halls, especially when I was touring with the Army Field Band in the early '70s) was different both from the recordings of the period and from the close-up sound I was fortunate enough to experience with a couple of the "greats."
Just taking the sound concept alone, the players of the mid-20th century were trained before the advent or, at least, the blossoming of the recording era in the '50s and '60s. The emphasis for most of those players was projection of both sound and expressive musical gestures (dynamics, articulations, etc.) in large orchestras performing in large halls, not, for most, "a round, smooth, dark, covered sound, one that sounds good up-close or for recording..."
Having grown up with that idea, I still strongly prefer it.
Karl
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