Comments on: Performer’s Perspective- Let’s Dance http://kennethwoods.net/blog1/2010/01/29/performers-perspective-lets-dance/ Music, opinion, life as a performing musician Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:19:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Greg A. http://kennethwoods.net/blog1/2010/01/29/performers-perspective-lets-dance/comment-page-1/#comment-85198 Greg A. Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:05:21 +0000 http://kennethwoods.net/blog1/?p=1359#comment-85198 I wish at some point a conductor would have taught us some of this style when I was in school. Instead, I get to sit in lots of groups that play Strauss waltzes, and some random violist/2nd violinist will ask the conductor if we're going to play the off-beats with a real Viennese style, which the conductor didn't ask for initially, which results in wasted rehearsal time debate, often with the group trying it but only the one or two players who might have actually gotten proper exposure to the style doing it right and nobody explaining to the rest of us how to do it "right". So painful. Your comment on notation also reminds me about jazz--how to explain to someone that swing eighths are almost but not quite like triplet eighths. I wish at some point a conductor would have taught us some of this style when I was in school. Instead, I get to sit in lots of groups that play Strauss waltzes, and some random violist/2nd violinist will ask the conductor if we’re going to play the off-beats with a real Viennese style, which the conductor didn’t ask for initially, which results in wasted rehearsal time debate, often with the group trying it but only the one or two players who might have actually gotten proper exposure to the style doing it right and nobody explaining to the rest of us how to do it “right”. So painful.

Your comment on notation also reminds me about jazz–how to explain to someone that swing eighths are almost but not quite like triplet eighths.

]]> By: Erik K http://kennethwoods.net/blog1/2010/01/29/performers-perspective-lets-dance/comment-page-1/#comment-85161 Erik K Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:02:48 +0000 http://kennethwoods.net/blog1/?p=1359#comment-85161 Great post, but if Kleiber's performances were the best, the 1994 49ers would have to be the comparison. Steve Young, Jerry Rice, John Taylor, Ricky Watters, Neon Deion...come on now. Kleiber's is magic, though. Haven't seen or heard Pretre's, but I'm familiar with some of his other stuff and enjoyed it. Great post, but if Kleiber’s performances were the best, the 1994 49ers would have to be the comparison. Steve Young, Jerry Rice, John Taylor, Ricky Watters, Neon Deion…come on now.

Kleiber’s is magic, though. Haven’t seen or heard Pretre’s, but I’m familiar with some of his other stuff and enjoyed it.

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