Klarinet Archive - Posting 000807.txt from 2001/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Requirements for a grade - more
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 23:04:24 -0400

At 09:16 PM 5/28/2001 -0400, Dee Hays wrote:
>(I wrote)
> > 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.

And you will not get that level of polished performance, either, without
that kind of time expended. Most schools I serve do one show per year,
improving and adding to it throughout the fall until it is complete. The
better ones might do two or three different shows. They perform them for 5
or 6 home games. I do not see where that is excessive. The competitive
band thing is another matter, and I have already stated my reservations
about that. It is the director's job to see to it that musical development
is not ignored.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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