Klarinet Archive - Posting 000934.txt from 1999/12

From: gerhardt@-----.com (Scott Gerhardt)
Subj: RE: [kl] The Top Ten...
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 18:08:31 -0500

On Dec 28, 10:42am, "Kevin Fay (LCA)" (kevinfay@-----.com) wrote:

> There are fabulous clarinet teachers out there who won't make the list
> because their students didn't end up in a major orchestra, or otherwise
> become famous.

And then there are the fabulous 'beginning' teachers that are so often
overlooked--the not-so-famous ones who sit in small-town music stores, day
after day, teaching children how to form good embouchures, how to breathe
properly, good hand form, how to *read music*, rhythm, etc. So often we
credit our more recent, more "advanced" teachers and forget where our
foundations were set.

In October of 1982 I had my first clarinet lesson with Jerry Levine in Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida. He was/is not famous as a teacher or performer (though I
believe he played 2nd in the Philadelphia Orchestra some time ago) and over
the course of two years we did not develop what may be considered a very close
student/teacher relationship, but there has not been a day since that I
fail to consult those years and find his techniques and advice just as
valuable. He charged $18 an hour and was certainly worth every penny.

--
Scott M. Gerhardt <gerhardt@-----.com>
5F 55 E8 3E AA 08 68 9A 58 CA 7C B1 B4 BE 24 B6

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