Bob Draper ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>Does Don Vroon really think that sweetness and emotion are synonymous? If
>so he's way off beam. To me sweetness means catchy tunes. Emotion is
>something else. Take Mahler and Bruckner as examples not much sweetness
>there but plenty of emotion.
Well, there is also sweetness of tone, which many modern ensembles seem
to avoid. I recall a yaer or two back a French string quartet (damn, what
was their name) visiting and playing, inter alia, the Ravel. Absolutely
gorgeous; and there was a definite "sweetness" (the only word) to their
tone, which was anything but cloying.
But I wouldn't equate "sweetness' with "catchy tunes">
Deryk Barker
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