Klarinet Archive - Posting 000027.txt from 1998/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: alto mpcs
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:25:38 -0500

At 12:34 PM 2/28/98 -0600, Roger Garrett wrote:
I guess I don't want my kids growing up to appreciate the Verdi
>Requiem because they won a marching competition using a portion of the
>piece! I would rather have them understand the art of why the piece is a
>requiem.....the form, the history, the ART of music.
>
This is not an either/or proposition. With competent teaching, and maybe
even without, one should be the pathway to the other -- in either direction!

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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.