Re: Re: Re: Tastes...


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Posted by Mike Sanders on August 06, 2003 at 12:58:58:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Tastes... posted by js on August 05, 2003 at 22:30:28:

Jacobs on recordings conducted by George Szell? Not to my knowledge. You need to check your facts. And please, everybody, let's consider live performances in the hall first and foremost, and realise that commercial recordings, radio broadcasts, etc., are really not what it's all about on a day to day basis for playing in an orchestra. Unless you heard AJ or Chester or Gene or Roger or Fletcher or any of the great artists of our instrument in lessons or in live performance you really just don't know.

To be a successful orchestral player you have to contribute to what is going on around you. When you hear an oboe or the concertmaster or trumpet or horn playing passages you take much information from listening to the work of these performers. I don't know any orchestral tubists in major orchestras playing with a big "difuse" tone. Clarity, beautiful tone, spot on intonation and musicianship are the basis for what we do. Sure power is required, but so is nuance. Listen to the above mentioned folks as musicians, not as faceless participants in some engineer's idea of a symphony orchestra.


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