Klarinet Archive - Posting 001012.txt from 1999/07

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] school music programs(kinda defending corps too)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:04:00 -0400

At 11:24 PM 7/25/99 -0400, you wrote:
>You do seem to lead a double life, both defending and dissing marching
>band. You claim personal, positive experiences, and, if I read your
>signature block correctly, DIRECT one at the college level. Yet you (and
>others) constantly snipe at it as somehow beneath the dignity of REAL music
>students. That is certainly as great a generalization as any I might have
>made in this discussion, and one with which I cannot agree.

Bill,

I am not interested in arguing with you about what you think I am, do,
believe, or otherwise. I have done my best to explain to you how I feel
about marching bands, and you just don't seem to understand what I am
saying - either because I have not said it well, or because you don't want
to hear it. Your statement above is really quite a ways off of what I am
and what I believe in - there are many reasons you would state this in
front of a large forum, as you have, but I'm not going to guess at any of
them.

Either way, the list is uninterested in this discourse - and I am also.

Please just drop it. I want to but cannot respond to any more of this kind
of bantering - I just don't have the time. Too many deadlines at this point.

If you want to continue - do so off the list and not on it.
Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Concert Band/Symphonic Winds/Titan Band
Advisor, Recording Studio
Illinois Wesleyan University
Office: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3411

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