Klarinet Archive - Posting 000861.txt from 1998/07

From: "Carrie Koman" <smile4200@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: mozart...
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:50:56 -0400

>>>I do not know how teachers teach solos in the public schools today.
>If they
>>>just hand the Solo to student and leave it up to them to figure it
>out...
>>
>>
>>In the schools in my area (San Fransisco Bay) the teachers don't even
>hand out
>>the solos in the first place. I'd never even heard of a concerto until
>I
>>started private lessons late in my sophomore year of high school. It's
>kind of
>>sad... Plus the teachers don't take anytime out of their day to help
>>individuals. I was last chair in the lowest band my freshman year in
>High
>>School, and after only one year of taking private lessons I was 2nd
>chair in
>>the highest band.(we have 3 bands so that's a pretty big jump)
>Teachers need
>>to put more effort into their job and help individuals.
>>
>>Karen D
>>Los Altos, Ca
>>
>My teacher puts a lot of effort into helping individual students. It
>isn't all teachers. In fact my teacher put so much into our band that
>when he got sick with Hodgkins Lymphoma we all put an effort to help
>raise money so that he could get the medical treatment. He wasn'tt here
>for half the year, but we still held together as a band and got a 1 at
>contest. He is the greatest teacher that ever lived. He taught us to
>stay together and work things out even if times are hard. So all
>teachers aren't bad.
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After my first year of college, I started to understand WHY some band
directors are terrible and some are great. The terrible band director is
the one that loves music but doesn't think s/he will "cut it" as a
musician and then "falls back" on music education. I don't know how many
times I've heard that expression. It takes more than a love of music to
be a band director. You have to want to help others to love it too. The
good band directors are usually those good musicians who have a drive to
succeed in them... They could succeed as either a musician or a teacher
if they put their mind to it. They're people who are studying music ed
because they WANT to and not as a "fall back."
I know quite a few people who are both excellent musicians and band
directors and a know a lot of people who are neither, but pretend to be.

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