Klarinet Archive - Posting 000155.txt from 1999/09

From: "Bruce Keplinger" <bruce@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] re: 52 year old "beginner"
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:56:59 -0400

Jenell,
You said it all!! Music is just to great a thing to hide. Having just
come off of a month of wonderful chamber music concerts (Hilary Hahn was one
of the musicians, she's a heckuva kid, friendly and approachable and down to
earth, but oh can she play!), I always find myself wondering how to spread
the word, so to speak, to people who have a "highfalutin" image of chamber
music.
Bruce

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jenelljack@-----.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 6:41 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] re: 52 year old "beginner"
>
>
> I apologize for the last post, new on this and it seemed to send
> on its own.
> Frank P. Galiani of Baltimore, MD is continuing a very encouraging thread
> here relating to the fact that it really is never too late to
> learn. I work
> with a young woodwind ensemble performing for various retirement
> centers in
> our area. We have been told many times the wish of those who
> would like to
> play an instrument but have thought it too old to get "those old bones"
> working. I have heard, and I hope correctly, that the best thing
> an older
> person (and I say this carefully as I am turning that corner
> myself) can do
> is take up a new instrument for it works both the left and right
> side of the
> brain causing mental alertness. I would like to see people of
> all ages in
> our communities doing the very same thing. If nothing else, what
> wonderful
> audiences we will be cultivating!!!
>
> Jenell Jacks

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