Klarinet Archive - Posting 000792.txt from 2000/04
From: webler1 <webler1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Music and Academic Achievement
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:00:31 -0400
I have run into this mentality in the last few years. I have had parents
come up to expressing an appreciation that there son had a chance to see a
man play the Clarinet, because the popular believe is that it is a "sissy"
instrument. I did not experience this in my youth. If anyone thought this
I didn't hear about. The fact that I could out run and out weight lift
most of my pears may have had something to do with it, though.
Personally, I have the type of personality that just doesn't care what
other people think about the instrument or instruments I choose to play.
My only concern has been focused on the quality of my playing. You will
always have to deal with peoples prejudices until the day you die. And all
of the government rules and regulations will not have any affect on the
thoughts and attitudes of the vast majority of the people in World. You
need to ask yourself one question, "Do I enjoy this?". If the answer is
yes then go for it. Be kind to the ones who think you're weird or
different. And if all else fails, get a set of weights and work out.
Jay Webler
Jay's Clarinet and Percussion
-----Original Message-----
From: Trish Mendenhall [SMTP:trishm@-----.com]
Subject: RE: [kl] Music and Academic Achievement
Actually, that's odd to me - when I was in high school, and in college, the
ratio of female to male in our clarinet sections was approximately 1:1. No
one thought that clarinet was a "girl" instrument at all.
Trish
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Callahan [mailto:kionon@-----.com]
Subject: Re: [kl] Music and Academic Achievement
>From: "Patricia Smith" <pattiesmith@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: Re: [kl] Music and Academic Achievement
>Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:09:21 -0700
>
>You must admit, there are some folks out there capable of satiring the
>whole
>"yeah, yeah baby@-----. " You and me baby are nothin' but mammals,
>so
>let's do it like they do on the discovery channel." The video has
everyone
>dressed as monkeys, and they jump around looking really silly; I was
>ROTFLMAO. Certainly not high art, but at least someone somewhere is
>finally
>not taking their pop junk so seriously.
>BTW, both of my twin boys want to play clarinet!!! And they're only five.
>They hear me play all the time. And they say that kids listen to their
>parents and take them in more than anyone else....
>
>Here's to hoping
>
>Patty Smith
Remember to impress upon them that clarinet is not just for girls. There
are
only three of us in FHS's Band, as opposed to 20 some odd girls. We are
looked down upon by some of the other sections, and my trombone section
considers me a traitor :P
Kevin Callahan
Clarinet IS Macho!
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