[Trombone-l] Artistry

Fri Dec 26 10:55:17 CST 2008

My answer is simple - I'd be happy to sub for Mr. Finlayson if Mr. Kaplan comes back :-)

J.c.S.

---- Rod Ellard <e11rod at yahoo.ca> wrote: 
> 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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