On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 09:37 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 04:57 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Of course, I also think all orchl. music before Mahler shd. be
played with the violin sections sitting opposite each other,
Not just *before* Mahler* but *including* Mahl
When somebody got the foolish notion that the direction the violin is
facing actually impacts the sound the audience hears.
In the opposites seating, the 2nd violins are facing the rear of the
stage, so if you hold with the directional-sound bit, it would be
counterproductive to seat them that
Curiously, our orchestra almost always plays Mahler with opposing violin sections, and
when we do it is for the whole concert. But we almost never do it for anything else.
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> From: Andrew Stiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Of course, I also think all orchl. music b
On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 04:57 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Of course, I also think all orchl. music before Mahler shd. be played
with the violin sections sitting opposite each other,
Not just *before* Mahler* but *including* Mahler, too, right? Zander
does it this way for his Mahler record
Andrew said:
> What this is really about is turf protection. The first desk player
> plays only one size not as a musically necessary requirement, but as
> a mark of status. I regard this as grotesquely unprofessional--maybe
> a cynic would say "grotesquely professional," I don't know. I do know
>
