Klarinet Archive - Posting 000377.txt from 1997/10

From: HatNYC62@-----.com
Subj: technique
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 22:02:20 -0400

Well, if someone is such a great "musician," it would stand to reason that
the person in question would make damn sure he/she spent enought time
aquiring the technical skills necessary to play anything asked at an
audition. Otherwise, what kind of a musician are we talking about? Not one I
would want to play with, that's for sure. Why should I have to baby-sit some
"talent" when there are players who weren't to "artistic" to practice their
scales in school?

Auditions are not necessarily won by the player with the MOST or even BEST
technique. It is highly rare, however, for someone with INADEQUATE or FLAWED
technique to win one, or even to make it to the finals of one. It's not
ignorance or discrimination, it's rewarding the person who has worked hard
and set firm goals. Technique is rarely learned at the expense of
musicianship, but good technique allows the musician to express whatever
needs to be said.

In a message dated 10/10/97 9:31:05 PM, you wrote:

<<Take two different students auditioning - they both play the same pieces
but one student has more musicianship and less technique and the other
just the opposite. In my experience, the student with the better technique
wins the audition every time. >>