Klarinet Archive - Posting 000500.txt from 2001/07

From: Ed Wojtowicz <ewoj@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Another musician honoured!
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:20:04 -0400

I like your points here. I sometimes wonder where the audiences for
classical or orchestral music will come from in a generation or two. At one
time in our culture it was present in the major media. Think of the radio
broadcasts of the symphonies on NBC or CBS, or later Bernstein on CBS with
the young peoples concerts. I have seen TV clips from the 1950's of major
figures in jazz. Now it is hard to find classical music on TV except PBS or
maybe somewhere like A&E. Classical music is just about non-existent in many
radio markets. I think that it has caused the dumbing down of our society in
regards to music. I think classical or art music is considered to be
something only for the elite. Consequently many people do not have the
ability to sit and listen to a work longer than 5 minutes, much less have an
appreciation or comprehension. That is why I think our jobs as performers
and educators is so critical. I applaud your efforts and ambitions!

Ed

> From: Ellen Davison <CKW5@-----.com>

>
> Edwin Gordon claims that the popularity of simplistic pop music is due
> to the fact that people have underdeveloped audiation skills.
>
> Similarly the ability to recognize musical events is closely linked to
> our "threshold of expectation"(Vaughan Williams, I think?) if we can
> completely predict the tune then we are bored if we are musically lost
> we loose interest too.
>
> For most people pop music is about all they can take. I think this is
> due to the lack of support for music educators and talented musicians in
> our culture.
>
> This is one reason I have returned to school to become a music teacher.
> And one reason too that I love relatively simple folk music. I think it
> can be a great teaching tool. It was to me ..without the beatles I would
> never have been able to follow charlie parker...we have to crawl before
> we can walk.
>
> Unfortunately our music culture has separated us into musician and non
> musician. I would rather see people in different levels of musical
> development. A clarinet teacher once told me that a beggining student is
> not bad just as a rose bud is not worse than the rose in full bloom.
>
> I hope one day we will be a culture where a person reaches full self
> actualization through musical expression
>
> Until that day we have much work to do right?
> Ellen
>

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