Klarinet Archive - Posting 000718.txt from 1999/07

From: "Will Shattuck" <willpsha@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] School Music Programs
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 20:25:33 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patricia Smith [mailto:david-patty@-----.net]
>
> Ed, I really wish schools could have drum corps sepsarate from
> band programs
> (and as extracurricular activities outside of school hours, like football,
> not mixed in with the music program) so that the individuals you
> referred to
> can have their fun and stop masquerading it as music. And I
> think I'm being
> nice about it, don't you?

I know that you are coming from a very different perspective than I am.
However, All the marching bands that I have been a part of have put
musicality and musicianship above marching or equal to marching. No band
director that I know of wants to put on a bad show. For example, last year
the H.S. band director of the small town I teach in did Carmena Barera
(please forgive spelling as I've never heard the piece or seen it) as a
field show. My own H.S. experience did everything from Rock to Classical on
the field. I know that you aren't putting down all MB programs, but I felt
the need to tell my experience

>Especially since I cannot stand drum corps
> either. Live and let live (or die - whatever).
> If my children choose to participate in marching band, I will support them
> in every way I can, and help the organization however I can. But
> if I come
> upon some person such as the one Ed is dealing with, and my children are
> having a miserable experience, then, of course, I will most certainly pull
> the plug on marching band for them, rather than subject them to such
> foolishness. Character building is one thing; playing along with another
> person's insanity is quite another.

I would totally agree with you here. ANY "insane" teacher I would pull my
children out of their class / program. Well that is when we have kids <big
grin>. I was one of those who hated MB in my freshman year and ended up
loving it by my senior year and then disappointed when my college only had a
pep band. Oh well ... I'm an assistant director of sorts for a MB program .
That's good enough for me at this time :) take care folks .... now back to
lurking <bigger grin>

Will

P.S. I recieved Patty's post three times. The second with an addendum and
the third the same as the second. Was this on purpose or an email burp?

 
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Will Shattuck, KF6VCE
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