Klarinet Archive - Posting 000330.txt from 2000/06

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Kenny G boycott?
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 22:46:23 -0400

At 10:09 PM 06/10/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>I guess you should have said, "everybody is entitled to there own opinion,
>except Roger Garrett."
>I guess we should only express opinions if we hav 98 % agreement on them.
>I, for one, find Kenny G's approach to Jazz extremely boring, which is why I
>don't listen to him. (I hope at least 98% of you agree, otherwise I just
>made a mistake by expressing my opinion. Perhaps I should crawl in a hole
>and die. Or at least stay there until I learn the concept of conformity.)
>
>Jay Webler
>Jay's Clarinet and Percussion

Jay,

Just a quick note to correct the above. I didn't post an opinion - I
posted someone else's opinion that was sent to me. I found it interesting
and thought that those on the list might like to read another professional
musician's somewhat shockingly direct interview. I don't have an opinion
about Kenny G. or Pat Metheny. I don't listen to either of these two
artists' music.

All the best,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Concert Band and Symphonic Winds
Advisor, Recording Studio
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
(309) 556-3268

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me,
this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very
best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until
the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't
amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels swearing I
was right would make no difference."
-Abraham Lincoln

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