Klarinet Archive - Posting 000803.txt from 2001/05

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Requirements for grade
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 22:43:45 -0400

At 08:59 PM 05/28/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Public school students don't have this choice. They are signing up for band
>not marching band but in high school are required to start marching if they
>want to continue to play and perform in the concert band.

Not true universally. Most school districts make it clear from the outset
that if students want to play in the high school band, they will be
required to march.

I certainly did when I taught that level. If the administration required
it of me, I required it of the students. It mattered little that I would
rather not have them march at all - it mattered because I could do marching
band and still teach students to be good musicians.......

Anyone who says it can't be done is a defeatist.

LOL.

RG

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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