Klarinet Archive - Posting 000301.txt from 1999/02

From: DHmorgan@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] re:Black, or African American
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 23:47:54 -0500

In a message dated 2/6/99 10:33:06 PM Pacific Standard Time,
James.P.Reed@-----.net writes:

<< Do we have any empircal evidence to indicate that black and female
clarinet instructors teach significantly different enough to suspect we
can detect such a bias? Or, have we reached a realm of theoretical
absurdity, comparing language and music over issues of ethnicity and
sex?

More to the point, have some of you been telling me that if I were
studying under a black, female clarinet instructor, if I auditioned
somewhere, I would be descriminated against as sounding like a black
female???????? If so, I' going to quit my lessons with a white male and
seek an alternative instructor!!!!!! >>

It's my fondest hope is that the answer is NO, there is no bias based on race
or gender. I while back I posted the notion that it might be possible,
causing much heated discussion, but I still think it's a pretty big MIGHT.
Study with the best teacher you can find!

Truly,
Don

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