Klarinet Archive - Posting 000773.txt from 2000/02

From: klar-ANN-ette H Satterfield <klarann@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Thought du jour
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 22:25:15 -0500

My father (85) talks about how he and his friends made their own toys.
Families and neighbors made their own entertainments for the most
part--cardplaying, storytelling. His parents would roll up the carpet,
invite friends, his father played piano for dancing. When he first began
playing clarinet, the job he aspired to grow into was in the orchestra
for the vaudville theater in town. The person in that position in a town
of 25000 made a salary that would support a family. Motion pictures that
situation obsolete before he was out of school.
(He studied engineering, after WW2 started his own heating and air
conditioning business.)

And the shift from being producers to consumers goes beyond music. How
many people grow what they eat?

The speed and noise level of daily life has changed enormously, within
the last 3 generations. Three of my four grandparents grew up on farms.
One cousin today is a farmer.

I like digital watches, sunscreen, computers, recorded music, pencillin.

Yet most of us on this list play acoustic instruments.

annhall

Ann Satterfield

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 10:13:38 -0500 avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
writes:
>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
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>EINE KLEINE KLEZMER MUSIK
>http://www.avrahm-galper.sneezy.org
>
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