[Trombone-l] Artistry

[David W. Buckley]

Mahler I'm sure is great but he always reminds me of a long winded preacher. 
Just when you hope he is going to stop he goes on for another half hour.

Merry Christmas to All and to All a Goodnight.

Dave Buckley.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rod Ellard" <e11rod at yahoo.ca>
To: "Jeff Albert" <jeffalbert.smb at gmail.com>; "Daniel Pliskin" 
<daniel_pliskin at hotmail.com>
Cc: "bone bone" <trombone-l at samford.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Artistry


A bit off topic, but is M2 really all that great a piece? After following 
the Finlayson/Kaplan thread in TTF for a couple of days, I put on my 
recording of M2 by Walter conducting the NYPO (someone will chime in with 
the date). There were some great parts but there were some not-so-great 
parts. Some parts sounded like bad Hollywood, some sounded a little 
student-ish, similar to but maybe not quite what Gustav able to do in, for 
example, M9 ( a piece I am still coming to grips with after, oh, twenty 
years of owning Solti/Chicago's M9 - Pankow plays great on that recording by 
the way).

We can genuflect before artistic genius and demand the same from others, but 
perfection is rarely attained by even the best and criticizing anyone for 
falling short seems to be a mug's game at best. Mr. F's comments seems to be 
a little like complaining about the moneylenders being allowed inside the 
temple and for that I respect his remarks but where the line is to be drawn 
is a difficult question.

R.

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I didn't hear the Kaplan performance. It may have been a pedestrian
reading of a great piece. I don't have a problem with calling BS when
it is present. We all have to find the balance between being true to
our standards, and doing the things we have to do to be able to be
working musicians at all.

Jeff

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