Klarinet Archive - Posting 000637.txt from 1999/07

From: kawai@-----.jp (Takashi Kawai)
Subj: [kl] Re: School Music Programs
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:05:32 -0400

Ed Lacy wrote:

> Today, one of my most promising private students told me that she can no
> longer take lessons, because she is required to be at marching band
> rehearsal EIGHT HOURS PER DAY!!!! They rehearse from 7:30 a.m. until
> 12:30 p.m., and then again from 6:30 to 9:30 in the evening.

This remainds me of the Japanese Symphonic Wind Music Competition. Those
who want to win the Competition (especially junior high / high school students)
practice and rehearse MORE THAN 6 HOURS EVERY DAY DURING THEIR SUMMER VACATION.
They can have only two or three days for "SUMMER VACATION" as "Obon." (Japanese
Traditional Vacation)

So, the stage members cannot have any time for traveling or other things
except the Competition. Non-stage members must go to school and do basic
practice (scales, long tones, etc.) all day,(!) and lose the interest for music,
then quit the club.

The Competition itself may be effective to make the skills of each band
higher, it seems for me that it requires too much.

Takashi Kawai
Kobe / Japan

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