Klarinet Archive - Posting 000642.txt from 1999/02

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Competition of players of various States
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:53:30 -0500

I just know I'm going to be sorry I poked my nose into this. I should mention
at the start that I am not a music educator, so I speak with authority from a
position of almost complete ignorance.

On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 19:25:27 -0700, Richard Bush wrote:
>
>...If they were to hold blind auditions or taped
>auditions for all who wanted to try out and then had an independent
>committee choose while also keeping in mind the required
>instrumentation, the chips would probably fall into a much different
>pattern. There might be some schools that would have a lot of
>representation and then there might be some schools that just wouldn't
>meet the standard and have few or no representatives. Of course that
>would be putting some real pressure on the band directors and their
>programs wouldn't it?

But is that REALLY the kind of thing we want in a high school music program?
Yes, I certainly want my daughter to be exposed to a good quality music
education, but I'm not at ALL convinced I want her band director feeling "real
pressure" to insure that his students prepare successful audition tapes.
Shouldn't we be worried about making musicians rather than making stars?

I dunno; maybe I am in the minority here, but I tend to think there is little
real difference between the district/regional concert band competitions and the
marching band competitions we ragged on so thoroughly last fall. I don't think
either of them necessarily produces better musicians. And aren't high school
students under enough pressure these days?

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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