Klarinet Archive - Posting 000740.txt from 2000/02

From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Thought du jour
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:12:34 -0500

Philip Kennicott in the Washington Post wrote this.

Recorded sound has had an overwhelming impact on home music making.
It has changed our musical culture from one in which listeners were also
participants in music into one which listeners are mostly consumers of
pre-made music.
Want to hear a Beethoven sonata? That'll be $16.99, please, which is a
lot easier and cheaper than learning how to play the piano.
Recorded music also established standards that are daunting to amateur
players.
Ask someone why he gave up the flute in College and the response is
probably "I wasn't good enough".
Good enough for what?

--
Avrahm Galper
CLARINET TONE TECHNIQUE AND STACCATO
CLARINET UPBEAT SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS
EINE KLEINE KLEZMER MUSIK
http://www.avrahm-galper.sneezy.org

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