Klarinet Archive - Posting 000142.txt from 1998/07

From: Edinger/Gilman <wde1@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] K622: maturity and immaturity
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 23:47:14 -0400

While a thoughtful debate is always an enjoyable experience, I'm very
disturbed by the collective attitude of some posters (regarding the
Mozart K 622) that "if you feel like doing it, it's just as valid as any
other interpretation, and anyone who disagrees is an arrogant fool."
These kids expect to make it as professionals? Sorry guys, but when you
find yourselves in a world of real professionals and go around with
attitudes like that, you're going to have one heck of a hangover from
your scholastic partying years. This applies to any professional field
of work, even the arts - and maybe especially the arts. You can't work
in a vacuum, and be assured that you won't. Put that at the top of your
list and work from there.
And that means that there are a lot of fellow professionals out there
who have been where you 've been, and a lot of other places in the
meantime. Just what is it you expect to learn in the next fifty years -
anything at all? Does a former member of a major symphony orchestra
rate no better than being called an "arrogant fool?" Have you learned
all he knows before you're even out of school? Where the heck is your
sense of proportion, for Pete's sake?
You think everyone else is going to just sit there and go along with
"your way" of doing things? If so, than you'd better plan on a career
as a soloist. There are darned good reasons for performing ensembles to
have conventional understandings of their art. Until you can accept the
fact that other's careers as professionals actually include learning and
accumulating knowledge far beyond four years of college, you will have a
great deal of maturation to do as a person before you can even begin to
mature as a musician.

Bill Edinger

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