"Clarinet-like"? What sort of reed was he using? Most I've heard sound more oboe-like, which imho is a Good Thing. chirs
>-----Original Message----- >From: Francis Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 5:05 PM >To: Ormston, Chris >Cc: NSP Mailing List >Subject: [NSP] Re: Mistakes in public perfomance, Miles Davis etc > > >On 1 Oct 2008, at 14:46, Ormston, Chris wrote: > >> Francis sent me an old clip from the Times, reviewing a Clough >> performance in London. I don't have it to hand, but the reviewer >> commented on Tom's absorption in his music, and his sense of >> phrasing - can you elighten us, Francis? > >Hi Chris and others, > >Here's the notice about the Tom Clough performance given as part of a >concert of Northumbrian music in London. from The Times of 07.03.28. >The comments are nice (if a little patronising) and very relevant to >the present discussions. > >Francis (with thanks to Maureen Davison for typing the text) > >The one instrumental performance in this engaging programme, filled >with too many good things for all to be noticed separately, was a >complete novelty for a London audience, and the London audience was a >complete novelty for the performer. Mr. Tom Clough is a member of a >family who have been performers on small Northumbrian pipes for >generations, and he played a number of tunes with the variations on >them which belonged to his family tradition. The Northumbrian pipes, >with their clarinet-like quality of tone, sound more civilized in the >concert room than the more famous Scottish pipes. Mr. Clough, who's >normal working day begins at 3am by cycling five miles to the mine at >which he is employed, faced his audience composedly, seemed as >completely absorbed in his music as Senor Casals, and his >phrasing had >something of the quiet mastery of Casals. He has a large repertory, >learnt entirely without notes, (though we understand that he has >learned enough of notation to be able to write out some of his >tunes), >and his playing was absorbingly interesting as it evidently was to >himself. > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
