Klarinet Archive - Posting 000735.txt from 2001/01

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: playing along with students (was: mouthpieces)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:20:30 -0500

<><> Gavin=A0Rebetzke wrote:
I didn't know there could be so much controversy over this.

Add me to the list of students who are surprised (astonished!) by
this discussion.

My teacher does both --- she insists on listening to my long tones
and a solo at the beginning of each lesson and she insists on playing a
duet(s) at the end, and what happens in between is up for grabs each
week. I can't imagine a teacher not playing a bit _each week_ with a
student, and I can't imagine a teacher not listening and appraising a
bit _each week_ while the student plays solo.

I suppose the situation changes as the student approaches the
master class level, but we're not talking about master classes here, are
we?

I suppose you could divide the arts into two categories: solo vs.
group. Painting and sculpture would be 'solo' art forms. It wouldn't
make sense for a sculpture teacher to sculpt along with the student ---
although even in this case, I can imagine the teacher guiding the
student's hands in a motion. But acting would be a group activity, and
acting teachers often act with the student as well as asking the student
to soliloquize (is that a word?).
Music is certainly a group activity, and regular amounts of the
teacher "playing along" each week, sometimes in unison and sometimes
not, seem a necessity to me.

Cheers,
Bill

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