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Re: RE:Phil McCann (Was vibrato) (fwd)

Exvuse all the >'s since it refused to post and , well you know the
problems you get with mail.  especially mine!
------> 
> On Fri 10 Jan 97 (05:12:25), pag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > What do you guys want.  Maybe you have short memories.  Phillip McCann
> >was
> > and probably is the best cornet player in the world (by a long way
> >too).
> > What does he need to do to become exiting?  Maybe sway a little, close
> >his
> > eyes, sweat profusely, dance, tell jokes ????  He's a cornet player
> >and
> > probably the finest exponent of the art that any of US will hear.
> > How many remember when he was top man at Dyke, and halls would fill
> >just to
> > hear HIM; half in admiration, the other half hoping he would cock up.
> > Have many of his knockers experienced that kind of pressure; sitting
> >on
> > stage at the RAH with 3000 people staring at and listening to YOU ?
> > He has probably the best knowledge of how to play slow melodies/arias
> >in th
> > e genre with his Dyke pedigree and his exhaustive research for his
> >recordin
> > gs: his technique is still second to none: his tone as pure as you can
> >get
> > and constant over 3 octaves.
> >
> > Look, listen and LEARN.
> 
> Whoosh...OK calm down...maybe my first post was a little abusive, i don't
know
> but that wasn't my intention..just my opinion. 
> Philip McCann could put on a skirt and high heels and run up and down the
stage
> if he wanted and I still wouldn't find him exciting.   Surely we've all sat
in
> front of a band and had a thrill up our spine as they play and then got up
> after listening to them and been sweating!!?   I know I have and this is what
> is exciting playing to me.   For it to be exciting,  I need to hear a nice
> bright tone and most important is a good attack and release which
> unfortunately, soloists seem to be loosing more recently and concentrating on
> playing slow melodies.  I know its true that playing slow melodies are harder
> than flying up and down scales everywhere but I don't want to buy a CD full
of
> them.   Take a listen to some jazz trumpeters...Derek Watkins, Kenny
> Baker...now THEY excite me as soloists and not just because they hit high
> notes, but because they have a bright powerful sound.  Listening to a live
> brass band excites me too.
> Its somewhat indefinable what makes an exciting performance but Phil McCann
> just doesn't have it and I don't mean his repertoire either.   His 'World's
> Most Beatiful' etc etc series isn't going to enforce my opinion that he can
> excite.   There is no doubt that he can play a slow melody and there is no
> doubt that his control is superb.  Last time I heard him, he played a slow
> melody and finished on a top D at pp, and that displays a fine control to me
> and i'm not questioning that but in my opinion he has a poor tone also.  I
> don't care if i'm the only person on earth that thinks that.  Its just my
> opinion, although I agree, he does have a constant tone over his 3 octaves.
> So halls filled to hear him.  Great. And the fact that he could play under
that
> pressure shows just how confident he is...I wouldn't be able to do that. 
This
> shows that he has some qualities, but i feel he is lacking others. 
> 
> I could go on all day and night about him because i've tried to see what
people
> see in him but I just can't.
> 
> Maybe I've missed something and i'm willing to listen but don't knock my
> opinion...the only person who can change it is McCann and I don't think he's
> capable of it.
> 
> All IMO.
> 
> Best wishes,
> -- 
> Gregor Spowart <gregors@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ...... In case of emergency - RUN!!!!!!! ......
> 
> 

-- 
Gregor Spowart <gregors@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

...... In case of emergency - RUN!!!!!!! ......


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