Klarinet Archive - Posting 000583.txt from 2001/05

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] School Board
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:16:41 -0400

At 05:45 PM 05/24/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I agree with your original message about the choir, but not the band. With
>all of the football games, pep band, and jazz band, there are lots of
>activities that are extracurricular.

Which then leads to the next question..........

Why?

Why does a band director do so many extra-curricular things with the
band? How does this teach musical literacy? In fact, is musical literacy
involved in the most fundamental way in the existing band program?

If in fact, the school requires the band to be at home football and
basketball games, and it is part of the letter grade received - then no
"Letter Jacket" is necessary - the students earn their "letter" in the grade.

If pep band and marching band are purely voluntary - then some kind of
recognition is a good thing I guess - although sometimes those folks play
just because they enjoy being part of the "show."

Best wishes,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Clarinet Professor
Director, Symphonic Winds
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes
another's."
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

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