Klarinet Archive - Posting 000704.txt from 1997/05

From: Dick Walters <waltersd@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Down one, how many more to go?
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 12:43:42 -0400

Jrykorten@-----.com wrote:
>
> Yo Rafe, Fred! We're down one. 596 to go.
>
> This is what makes this list so good. Only the strong survive!
> .. and you're looking for what? just you left on this list? Is that what a professonal musician is all about? Deliver me. I rather think having to break out a new reed (which it seems to me a contingency a pro would be ready for) would be minor compared to being trashed by a teacher we intuitively respect. That what this list is all about - winnowing the learners from the elitists? Good way to get this list down quickly, that's the case. By the way, I never heard of the Schumann either? So what's your point?

Dick Walters, who you quoted out of context

> You sissies who can't stand the heat won't survive one month as a
> professional musician anyhow. My ex-teacher, now a first chair at a symphony
> orchestra has had her reed broken during rehearsal break. Being spoken to
> rudely hardly qualifies as a rough ride! Music is tough business. Somebody
> has to weed the winnow from the chafe.
>
> SNIP
> << ...Don't quit
> the list Kenneth. That WOULD be dumb. There's more here than this
> rather petty display of human frailty that has distracted us somewhat
> from our passion, the clarinet.
>
> Dick Walters
> >>