Klarinet Archive - Posting 000367.txt from 1999/03

From: "Paulette W. Gulakowski" <pollyg@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Studio teaching Horrors
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 20:13:11 -0500

Being in college during the late sixties, I had a very liberal attitude
about touching - and a lot of things! But because of the problems that
liberality has caused in society we have tightened our mores. We must
deal with where we are now. Music is so personal to me that
"standoffishness" is somewhat abhorrent BUT I have to deal with it.
Imagine if we were instructing dancers - ballet especially.
A soft touch on the cheek while playing will point out *puffing* far
better than any verbal admonition (in my opinion at least) and I've been
known to have students feel my throat and jaw so they could tell how
tone production should be *under the skin*. Good thing I don't teach
regularly any more - I'm likely to labelled a pervert!
Paulette

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:38:07 -0500 Michael Cogswell
<Michael_Cogswell@-----.com> writes:
>Paulette wrote in part:
>
>"Hmmm... My "Class Voice" teacher in college grasped the second/third
>button on anyone's shirt who wasn't standing correctly and said "This
>has
>to point to the ceiling." She targeted males and females both and to
>this day, the picture is so vivid, I think about it every time I stand
>to
>sing! I never considered that demonstration inappropriate but I
>guess I
>should have. <snip> "
>
>To which Ed replied:
>
>"I don't think you should have, but the point is that some people
>will."
>
>Paulette may not have considered it quite as benign if the person
>grasping a
>button in the middle of her chest was male rather than female.
>Unfortunately, our litigatious society (especially in the US) has gone
>way
>too far toward defining any incidental contact as assault. Equally
>unfortunately, we got to this point because there was plenty of
>"incidental
>contact" that was neither incidental nor accidental. As a veteran of
>over
>30 years in the workforce I can bemoan how carefully we must consider
>our
>every action, but I can also see a big improvement.
>
>MikeC
>
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