Klarinet Archive - Posting 000844.txt from 1997/02

From: R Tennenbaum <rtenn@-----.COM>
Subj: Upsetting situation
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 08:02:34 -0500

Kenneth Chin wrote:

>I will, I'm sorry to say, continue to ask questions that I would like
>answers to for my own knowledge...if you see my name or e-mail address
>"pop-up", simply delete my message.
>
>I don't mean to get nasy. It's just that we are all here for informative
>purposes. Do you think that I subscribe to this mailing list just to sit
>in front of the computer and have something to read that is of no
>importance to me?
>
>I apologize to all of you receiving this. I just wanted everyone to know
>what kind of feedback I'm getting from asking questions. I came to the
>assumption that Mr. Naden was encouraging me not to ask questions.
>
>Sorry that you all have to see my upset side,

We would prefer not to see it. If Mr. Naden chose to respond to you
in private, why did you broadcast his response to the list? Since
you've taken the liberty of doing so -- not, incidentally, to your
advantage -- let me say, and perhaps I'm speaking for other members,
that his point is very well-taken. For instance, you also asked
about recordings of the Rose Etudes. For all I know there may be
dozens of these (although I doubt it, since I don't believe record
companies in general are rushing to produce disks of unaccompanied
clarinet performances of pleasant-sounding exercises of virtually no
musical interest except as pedagogical studies) but the point is, if
you're having a hard time figuring out a phrase in Rose, why don't
you just ask your teacher about it?

Rafe Tennenbaum
http://www.quicklink.com/~rtenn