Klarinet Archive - Posting 000667.txt from 1999/07

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] School Music Programs
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 12:11:33 -0400

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Patricia Smith wrote:

> I suspect Mr. Lacy's student may have hoodwinked him somewhat. I have
> never heard of any of these 8 hour days being longer than a week or
> two in the summer. Me suspects the young lady simply doesn't wish to
> take lessons right now, or that she might be experiencing pressure
> from her parents and doesn't want to pass the buck onto them
> responsibility-wise. Especially if she is a high school student and
> not at the point where she has to make a decision about college (i.e.
> 9th or 10th grade), and the parents don't consider music a serious
> career choice anyway. I've seen my share of these.

Nope, not the case at all. She is entering her freshman year in high
school. Both of her parents are professional musicians, and are as
distressed as I am about the situation. The student has been studying
piano for 8 years, and has played saxophone for three years in elementary
school and junior high school. She recently decided, on her own, that she
wanted to play the bassoon. She is an extraordinarily talented and
dedicated musician. When she came to her lesson yesterday afternoon,
between marching band rehearsals, she could barely drag herself up the
stairs to get to my studio. Her mother was with her, and she was
concerned enough about her daughter's physical well-being that she had
reluctantly come to the realization that her daughter was not going to be
able to accomplish anything in her lessons under the circumstances.

See a later message of mine concerning the way the band rehearsals are
scheduled.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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