[Trombone-l] Bartok gliss question revisited

[james meador]

Alex,

I agree with you to a certain extent.  Suffice it to say that I would never 
consider buying a horn just to play the lick, or even a few licks.  However, 
in my experience the difference between good musicians and great ones has 
been their attention to the minutest of details.  Those players that go the 
extra mile to make sure they produce exactly what is intended to the best of 
their ability.  Not only what the composer put on the page, but even trying 
to produce what the composer was feeling when he wrote the piece (based on 
score study or historical study or whatever).  This is what I aspire to.  I 
certainly don’t do it to impress the conductors, most of whom have not 
impressed me.  I also agree that it is just an effect, but the better we can 
pull it off the more effective it is.

James

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