Klarinet Archive - Posting 000419.txt from 1999/05

From: "Arndt, Amy" <AArndt@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] re: Music Ed vs. Performance
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:41:47 -0400

I am a teacher,a band director. If you do not love kids and the thought
of teaching them what you love, then I would recommend that you not
teach. It is a tough job and if that is not where your heart is it will
be a struggle everyday. I am not trying to discourage you just give the
truth. A performance major is tough so you need to think long and hard,
it takes a lot of commitment to yourself and your art. I wish you the
best in making that decision.

AA

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Leupold [mailto:nleupold@-----.edu]
Subject: Re: [kl] re: Music Ed vs. Performance

On Tue, 11 May 1999, David Blumberg wrote:

> "Each year, more than 13,000 (thirteen thousand) hopefuls graduate
with
> performance degrees, but annually, fewer than 150 (one hundred fifty)
> symphony jobs come open". That is from page A14 of the July 7, 1998
Wall
> St. Journal. Written by Gwendolyn Freed, editor of Chamber Music
Magazine,
> Minneapolis. Are those numbers sobering enough??

150 jobs? Sounds optimistic. Perhaps the figure includes
all of those little $70/service community orchestra gigs,
where a section member leaves the group in order to enroll
in grad school or take a promotion at his/her day job in
another city.

-- Neil

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