Klarinet Archive - Posting 000449.txt from 1996/06

From: "Michael D. Moors" <mdmoors@-----.US>
Subj: Re: Instrumentation concerns
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 17:33:15 -0400

Scott,

Your suggestions for band aptitude tests were humorous. I wish you could
devise such a rigorous process for parents who are boisterous. If only if
there was an equivalent of being forced to play on flavored reeds for the
non-clarinetist.

I enjoyed the opportunity to air my view with both you and Gene.

Best wishes.........

Mike Moors

At 10:30 AM 6/27/96 -0400, you wrote:
>In response to my (intended) "humourous" suggestions for band aptitude
>tests, Mike wrote:
>
>>Scott,
>>
>>If you put my entire post in perspective the true intent should be there.
>>Mike Moors
>>
>
>Mike,
> My post WAS meant to be humourous! Seriously, though, your
>positions (and others on this list) HAD refined my point of view on the
>subjects of school instrumental training. As a former fourth grader who
>did NOT get to learn his first choice instrument (and never regretted it!),
>I do NOT fault your methods. And as a former college student at a
>non-music school (where we had to hire string players for concerts!), I
>also understand how frustrating it is to play with a group with inadequate
>instrumentation - thus my suggestions that students should be able to put
>together smaller ensembles to play the types of music they like with the
>instrumentation they have, rather than trying to force understaffed (no pun
>intended) ensembles to tackle arrangements that will have so many missing
>parts that nobody plays for half the piece! (I was responsible for getting
>our college "orchestra" to become a string quartet one year, where they'd
>only be missing one player, instead of twenty!).
> My views on instructor-induced instrument switches have modified,
>also: from totally against to understanding that some people really DON'T
>have the aptitude for some instruments. I DO still believe that the
>instrument the student switches to should be one the student wants to play
>(possibly from a "list" of suggestions from a qualified intructor.).
> I have nothing but respect for the DEDICATED school instrumental
>music directors (of which, I assume, you are one!).
>
>-Scott
>
>Scott D. Morrow
>Department of Biochemistry
>School of Hygiene and Public Health
>Johns Hopkins University
>(410)-955-3631
>
>SDM@-----.edu
>
>

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