On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 21:57:27 -0400, "Dennis Bathory-Kitsz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> It's not about the pedal A, it's about the attitude -- "we'll change > whatever the composer wrote / whenever it's a bother to play the note." Then, there is the "we'll change what the composer wrote, because they couldn't have meant what they wrote" attitude. Happened to a student of mine a couple of days ago. During the rehearsal of (quite a dense) orchestral piece, the vibraphone player insisted on playing everything with pedal, despite the extremely clear (and frequent) reminders in the part to play nearly all of it _without_ any pedal. It was ruining the musical effect, and the conductor wasn't catching it- there were enough other mistakes keeping him occupied, I suppose. My student managed to have a word with the player during the break, and things were fine by the evening's performance. The comment from the player was interesting though- "Oh, I didn't play it without pedal because I've never played anything on the vibraphone without pedal before." This is a player who will presumably go on the job market in a few years... David -- David Horne | www.davidhorne.co.uk note that email address has changed slightly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is no longer read tel:+44(0)161-796-7964|fax:+44(0) 870-133-9627|mobile:+44(0)7904-114580 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
