Klarinet Archive - Posting 000682.txt from 1999/07

From: Ken Wolman <Ken.Wolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] School Music Programs
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:12:28 -0400

david-patty@-----.net wrote:
>
> Dear Ken,
>
> It sounds as if your son's band did some things right. It is also good to
> hear he enjoyed himself. However, I would also suspect that you, as dad,
> AND musician, ingrained sound musical principles in your son's mind, so any
> lack on the school end was more than made up by you. I always felt the only
> thing I would ever improve about my parents (great as they are) would be to
> have had them be musicians, as I was the only one anywhere in my extended
> family, and felt like a real freakazoid. We, as parents, really do have the
> last word with our children. My son Christopher can't wait until he has his
> own clarinet for "lesson teach".

I don't think I did much of anything except contribute to the gene
pool. His mother also has a real good music sense. At the time he
began playing, I wasn't: I didn't pick up the horn again until the end
of '97. It COULD be that music was always playing in the house: opera,
classical, folk, Fifties rock 'n' roll. It was always SOMETHING. In
fact, Ben has metamorphosed away from the brass instruments (he actually
offered me his trumpet) and into rock guitar...but more importantly into
songwriting and singing. He is a remarkably good songwriter and his
voice for rock music is at least "good enough." The first time he
played me the tape of a song he'd written I braced myself, but I was
shocked. I told him "Ben, I don't bullshit anybody about music or
writing, and this stuff is real good."

He's also showing the poet-gene. One of his songs deals obliquely with
his mother's and my divorce. It's got a core of anger even as it makes
up specifics and details.

Ken
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Teach someone to fish and you have helped them survive another day.
Teach them to surf the Net and they won't bother you for weeks.

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