williepee

williepee

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14 years ago @ The Buzzing Reed, Davi... - Weber Clarinet Quintet... · 0 replies · +1 points

Best performance of this I have ever heard. Limpid, caressing.

14 years ago @ The Buzzing Reed, Davi... - Mozart Gran Partita, A... · 0 replies · +1 points

Transcendent.

14 years ago @ The Buzzing Reed, Davi... - Clarinet Baby Noodling · 1 reply · +1 points

Wow! Now *that's* improvising! Love the tongueing effects!!!

14 years ago @ The Buzzing Reed, Davi... - Intimacy with your Ins... · 1 reply · +1 points

"Very late at night when no one is around, with all the windows shut ..." Oh my goodness! What must you have thought of me, putting my haphazard improvisation on YouTube!!! I guess for a classically-trained musician the idea of improvisation is ... searching for words ... well, I don't know! Ha-ha. If I couldn't improvise, I'd surely drop both piano and clarinet. Though I WILL say that playing printed music ENHANCES my improvisation, for one thing by causing me to have the feel of a different key "in my hands." The best improvisation comes after playing music. No, for me the free-style "noodling" is life itself. Anyway, fabulous essay as always - thanks!

14 years ago @ The Buzzing Reed, Davi... - Intimacy With Your Ins... · 1 reply · +1 points

Really enjoyed reading your story (I'll search for the subsequent parts). It's smart that you "recycle" these on Twitter. The titles draw me in (I invariably come here from Twitter). You are helping me get back to my clarinet playing. Thanks.

14 years ago @ The Buzzing Reed, Davi... - The Life of a Musician... · 1 reply · +1 points

Realistic and wonderful narrative! I played for about 18 months in a community orchestra (a fairly large one) and found some (not all) of the musicicans to be self-centered and thoughtless to a degree I hadn't experienced since grade school. Yet I miss being part of that music-making.

What a great statement about practicing! Powerful essay, DT.

14 years ago @ The Buzzing Reed, Davi... - Pitch · 1 reply · +1 points

My piano tuner tunes my piano to "Well Temperament" rather an Equal. Also have found my 1950s Selmer "Centered Tone" clarinets _with their historically accurate mouthpieces_ tune as well as, perhaps better than, my Buffet R13s.

Fascinating stuff! Thanks for your musings.