en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/671044 Comments by williepee http://blog.davidhthomas.net/2009/10/weber-clarinet-quintet-1st-movt/#IDComment40505656 Best performance of this I have ever heard. Limpid, caressing. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:16:40 +0000 http://blog.davidhthomas.net/2009/10/weber-clarinet-quintet-1st-movt/#IDComment40505656 http://blog.davidhthomas.net/2009/10/mozart-gran-partita-adagio/#IDComment38896718 Transcendent. Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:13:15 +0000 http://blog.davidhthomas.net/2009/10/mozart-gran-partita-adagio/#IDComment38896718 http://blog.davidhthomas.net/2009/10/dt-baby-noodling/#IDComment38537907 Wow! Now *that's* improvising! Love the tongueing effects!!! Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:15:37 +0000 http://blog.davidhthomas.net/2009/10/dt-baby-noodling/#IDComment38537907 http://blog.davidhthomas.net/2007/11/intimacy-with-your-instrument-part-2/#IDComment38194746 "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! Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:28:15 +0000 http://blog.davidhthomas.net/2007/11/intimacy-with-your-instrument-part-2/#IDComment38194746 http://blog.davidhthomas.net/2007/10/intimacy-with-your-instrument/#IDComment37621509 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. Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:16:06 +0000 http://blog.davidhthomas.net/2007/10/intimacy-with-your-instrument/#IDComment37621509 http://blog.davidhthomas.net/2006/10/the-life-of-a-musician/#IDComment37181858 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. Sun, 4 Oct 2009 13:07:59 +0000 http://blog.davidhthomas.net/2006/10/the-life-of-a-musician/#IDComment37181858 http://blog.davidhthomas.net/2006/01/pitch/#IDComment36665304 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. Thu, 1 Oct 2009 00:56:46 +0000 http://blog.davidhthomas.net/2006/01/pitch/#IDComment36665304