Klarinet Archive - Posting 000496.txt from 1998/06

From: pollyg@-----. Gulakowski)
Subj: Re: [kl] Back To School?
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 06:42:12 -0400

P: Personally, I haven't been there or done that but my Mom got her high
school diplomaAFTER she put all five of us kids through college (she had
gone as far as 6th grade in a rural parochial school). I'm the oldest of
the 5 and went to Indiana University of Pennsylvania to major in music.
One of my classmates was a woman in her sixties who majored in organ.
Her granddaughters were at Carnegie Mellon. She went four years to IUP
and graduated cum laude.

P: I didn't play for 20+ years but am back working with a highschool
band as a woodwind instructor. I only wish I would have stayed with the
music teaching, I missed out on a lot.

P: Don't hesitate to undertake this project. You won't regret it. The
only regrets come from opportunities not taken.

Best of Luck!
Paulette
pollyg@-----.com
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998 10:54:36 EDT <DGross1226@-----.com> writes:
>Having been a list member for more than four years now, I know that my
>31-year
>break from playing clarinet (1955-1986) didn't set any records. As as
>a high-
>level amateur player I have reasonably good musical performance
>skills, but I
>lack a fundamental knowledge of music. So I'm seriously considering
>taking
>an early retirement from careers in science & engineering, and most
>recently
>fundraising, to enroll in a local community college to study music
>seriously.
>I'm not sure where such an adventure would lead me, but I was
>wondering if any
>of you on the list who were significantly older than the typical 18
>year old
>freshman had ever pursued a similar path? Or have any of you college
>educators taught similar "retreads" in your classrooms? Any help
>would be
>greatly appreciated either via KLARINET or personally.
>
>Don Gross
>La Canada, California
>
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