Klarinet Archive - Posting 000917.txt from 1999/07

From: "Paulette W. Gulakowski" <pollyg@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] school music programs(kinda defending corps too)
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 22:45:01 -0400

On Sat, 24 Jul 1999 20:57:25 -0500 (CDT) Roger Garrett
<rgarrett@-----.edu> writes:
>On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Paulette W. Gulakowski wrote:
>> This comment is not specifically about Carmina, rather about any MB
>> music.
>> There are 200 band parents out there who CAN hum it, recognize it,
>seek
>> it out in other venues. Some go out and buy tapes of the real thing
>-
>> simply because they heard it in MB and liked it. They know the MB
>music
>> way better than the concert music. There are also the kids from
>the
>> other (opposition) band and their parents and other band geeks and
>band
>> geek usetawases. These may not be "masses" but they are part of
>them.
>> I'd probably put a chorus on the field with the band to do Carmina
>> Burana. Folks would remember!
>
>I can hum Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band too, doesn't mean
>I
>understand it. The saddest thing is that they have no idea the form,
>function, tonality, voicing, etc. of the work. All they can do is hum
>a
>melody? This isn't music education - this is rote learning of best
>top 10
>tunes.
>
>Sorry - let's join the world of Music Education.
>
>BTW....not all the parents can do that - nor the fans - just the ones
>who
>went to the competitions. Tell me.....do they know when Orff lived?
>What
>other pieces he wrote? What form the original work had??

Perhaps not. Nonetheless, without this exposure they may not know it
even existed.
As far as Music Education goes - I have always believed that the purpose
of music education is to create consumers of good music. I've come full
circle. It's exposure that opens that crack. If a MB performance
prompted even some of the students to get a tape of the "real thing" or a
parent to hum (Sgt Pepper has its positive musical aspects, too) I've put
the wheels in motion. I 'm well aware that there are better situations
for exposure but many drink not from that fountain.
Paulette

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