Klarinet Archive - Posting 001061.txt from 1999/03

From: Kratofil <kratofil@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] doubling
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 08:30:21 -0500

I, too, double, but mostly as a teacher. My studio includes clarinet,
flute, oboe, saxophone and piano students. I think this is the main
reason I am able to make my living teaching privately. (And I love the
variety each hour brings!) My playing abilities vary instrument to
instrument, but I am always looking to improve. Even in high school,
though, I was interested in other instruments, getting a friend to teach
me what she knew about flute.

Barry Mcginnis <bmcginni@-----.edu> posted:
> Marty, I agree with your posting 100% I am currently a doctoral student
> in saxophone. I have also studied clarinet seriously for several years
> and have a masters degree as a woodwind specialist.

What universities offer a woodwind degree? I have only heard of a
couple. That is something I am interested in.

Barry Mcginnis <bmcginni@-----.edu> also posted:
> As far as if the world really needs another good saxophonist, I pose the
> following question to the list for. If a student wants to play the
> saxophone, the clarinet, oboe, or sarrusophone, is it our job as
> educators to convinve them to play a different instrument than the one
> they have chosen? Imho, we should do our best to teach them MUSIC in
> the hopes that it will enrich their lives and hopefully produce a
> supporter of the arts in the future. I do not think that a seventh
> grader should be switched to a different instrument just because there
> MAY be more jobs available for that instrument in the future.

I agree! Most of my teaching is teaching of _music_. My husband (band
director) and I disagree on this point. He is always after the flutes
and clarinets to switch to brass. (You know the story.) I am always
glad when a few stand up and say no!! IMHO, any student will get more
out of their studies if they actually _like_ their instrument in some
way (the sound of it, usually). (And, I suppose it is possible that
some of them enjoy their new brass instrument....)

Aimee Kratofil
Independent Music Teacher
Greensburg, PA

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