Klarinet Archive - Posting 001295.txt from 2000/10

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] A curricular issue
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 07:24:58 -0400

At 07:07 AM 10/27/2000 EDT, you wrote:
>Karl Krelove wrote,
>>>These must be very good non-major flute players (or to keep it more
>>>list-specific, let's change it to clarinet players). I can imagine this
>>>happening in the abstract, but I'm having a hard time with the thought that
>>>it happens often in the real world, unless clarinet (flute) #18 out of 20
>>>really isn't at an appropriate level in the first place for the program
>>>he/she was accepted into. You haven't said whether the other majors were
>>>accepted into the ensembles (placed within the first 12) or whether more of
>>>them are getting beaten by engineering and journalism majors.
Leila wrote:
>I think it does happen in the real world. People whose talents lead them
>naturally to music have always been subject to pressures to choose something
>different for a career, something more lucrative.

We don't discriminate by major. When I attended the University of
Michigan, my younger brother was also there. He was principal
cornet/trumpet (they all played trumpets - but he was top dog) in the
Michigan Symphony Band under H. Robert Reynolds. It also happened that he
was an industrial design major in the School of Art. There were quite a
few music majors who did not make it into the top band, and even the second
band at U. Mich. that year.

Sincerely,
Roger Garrett

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

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