Klarinet Archive - Posting 000837.txt from 1999/07

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Marching band - to be or not to be
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 22:39:35 -0400

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From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
Date: Friday, July 23, 1999 8:52 AM
Subject: [kl] re: Marching band - to be or not to be

>
>Not trying to defend marching band in the least, as I feel it is a waste of
>practice time for the serious musicians, but if they didn't require
>marching band - they would not have most of the quality musicians in the
group.
>Maybe that is how it should be - doubt the jocks would notice the
>difference ;)
>

It would be fine to make it mandatory if they didn't spend so much time on
it. If they took one band practice a week out of five to work on the drills
that would be fine. Then make it mandatory. Even the super serious
students appreciate the fun of getting out and doing something different.
But requiring them to be in a marching band whose training is so time
consuming that it is more of a sport makes it unreasonable to make the
marching band mandatory. So it depends upon the program.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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