On Apr 3, 2008, at 6:38 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 6:07 PM -0400 4/3/08, Christopher Smith wrote:
Not fast, they are fine for most players. You will get a gap
between successive pitches (in other words, legato is out of the
question.)
Not sure why you would say that, Christopher. If legato connection
is required, the left hand can slide up the string very quickly,
and the slide can be covered by the bowing if you don't want it.
(In some cases you might possibly want to hear the slide.) It
ain't rocket science!
It was how a passage that I wrote was executed, by reasonably good
players. Maybe they were covering their butts to avoid any kind of
perception of momentary out-of-tuneness, but I asked for it to be
more connected and never got anything close to even a medium détaché.
Maybe things are different in different circles. Darcy said
afterwards that he wanted glisses, which should be perfectly fine, as
long as he doesn't change to a 4th-touch on any of them.
Maybe I should have asked for glisses, too!
Christopher
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