Klarinet Archive - Posting 000797.txt from 2001/05

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Requirements for a grade - more
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 21:16:18 -0400

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From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Requirements for a grade - more

> I cannot imagine a school art program that would NOT put on displays of
the
> students' works. Teachers, administrators, parents, and school boards
> would absolutely DEMAND it! Not weekly, necessarily, but as frequently as
> possible.

Strange, my art class never put on a display although parents could come in
and look at it. My children's schools set out the artwork as a display on
the school's Parent's Night but that was only once or twice a year. Now I
am talking about public school systems not art schools. And on top of that
in the public school they get their grade whether their work is displayed or
not.

>
>
> > Also much as I enjoyed marching, it really has little to do with music
> >education even though you do play while you march.
>
> It is less about MUSIC than about PERFORMING. Every popular music group,
> from the Beastie Boys to Brittney Spears knows that performing is a
> different thing from making music. There is room for BOTH in the world,
> and both are important in their own way. That they can be done
> simultaneously detracts from neither and often adds to both.

Still you need to spend the necessary time developing the basic abilities in
music before you become embroiled in a hectic performance schedule. The
people you mention are making their living performing music. They spend
virtually all their waking hours either preparing to perform or performing.
They are not high school students still developing their musical abilities.
The high school student needs to be kept to a limited performance schedule
so that they can develop musically.

Dee Hays
Michigan

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