Klarinet Archive - Posting 001086.txt from 1997/10

From: noname <hakan@-----.net>
Subj: Re: bad tone
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 01:40:56 -0500

AmyLynnR@-----.com wrote:
>
> I don't think you can blame bad teachers for turning kids off to music. I've
> never had a really good teacher. In fact, I've never even had a teacher who
> knew how to play the clarinet. I just practice twice a day and I try to
> learn from those around me, books, and well, the internet. My band
> instructer couldn't care less about anything but his stupid beloved trumpet
> section! My point is, that if you're motivated to play music, nothing can
> stop you. Right now I'm making a sad attempt at teaching myself the flute,
> and I'll get it eventually. No one doesn't like music, the fact is that it
> is not sociably accebtable to be a musician, or in performing arts, which
> sorta cuts me out of everything. It's not the teachers, it's society as a
> whole.
> ~=~=~=AMY=~=~=~

Yes... It is hard to be accepted as an musican. People like music, but
they either won't or can't pay for it. They pay for alchohol, watching
the Cable-TV, the football-games. Unfortunately also ordinary people
sometimes also thinks of classical musicians and their supporters as an
"eliti" and do not want to affiliate with this. I am a painter that do
not do installations, but "traditional" art, and beeing a person that do
not want so "sell myself" and go out talking how "special" my art is -
because I do not find it "that" special - I know it is a struggle, and
unfortunately also a very hard and serius competition. Competitions can
ofcourse be fun, but when they are about the things you live for and
really want to do, people tends to get alinated from each other -
instead of giving each other ideas and sharing information one starts to
keep secrets to one self. Fortunately musicans (maby not always people
who like music) are vise people that know that we have to play together
to make beautiful music.
The society today (especially the american "following" the ideas of
Spencer) that build upon the idea that you have to (and always can) be
strong to survive, also does not promote estethical qualities since it
is expencive (i.e. by thinking it is expensive we make it expensive). We
rather invest our money in things that are important (i.e. things that
we in our society have made important). The major investers on this
planet (large corporations and also unions in Europe) that has the
responsability for their "owners"-the stock holders and employees do not
dare to invest in things that we do not think of as important like
music, art, social and helt care. What if our world where build upon the
idea that playing music was important, and instrument manufacturing was
the branch you really should invest your money in.

Hekan