Klarinet Archive - Posting 000186.txt from 1998/06

From: pollyg@-----. Gulakowski)
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet in space
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 20:35:44 -0400

On Thu, 4 Jun 1998 16:48:51 -0500 "Carl Schexnayder"
<carlsche@-----.com> writes:
>Jason write:
>
>For Mr. Hollands Opus, did Richard Dreyfuss take piano lessons to
>emulate it
>or is that his actually playing, because either way, it looks very
>authentic
>and very real.
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>>-jason
>
>
>Hi Jason,
>I don't remember the movie that well but, what bothered me more than
>anything was his conducting and the actual piece that he supposedly
>composed. Is that what was longing to come out all those years!?
>Goodness!!! It was obvious he wasn't a musician, (my opinion), all
>through
>the movie.
>
>I also didn't like the ending at all! If all of those important
>influential
>people thought he had done such a great job and the music program had
>done
>so much good, it's impossible for me to believe that they couldn't
>have
>demanded that the program be continued!!!
>
>Carl Schexnayder

P: Okay Carl - you'd think that's how it would work in real life but
that's naive. School districts and their music programs are supported by
their tax base, not by the politicians and big shots. "If you're not
playing Sousa marches in the parade, what's the use of a music program?"
I actually overheard that (or similar) comment from a bystander as I was
accompanying my band kids along a local parade route. Go figure.

Paulette
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