Klarinet Archive - Posting 000413.txt from 2001/08

From: "Kevin Callahan" <kionon@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] I'm new with questions
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:53:37 -0400

>From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] I'm new with questions
>Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 05:47:28 -0400
>
>At 11:56 PM 8/26/2001 -0500, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>>Generally, I hate to post "me too!"s but this is one exception I must go
>>with. I've just entered college, and I'm probably going to be an Ed major.
>>I
>>do NOT want to play trombone, yet it is my primary instrument. I'm quite
>>wobbly on clarinet, but it's what I love. I've found, though I have to
>>play
>>trombone to a fair degree while I'm here, most of the faculty is far more
>>concerned with me getting back into practice on clarinet and going from
>>there. The problem was that my HS band director was a real jerk and
>>wouldn't
>>let me switch sophomore year, so I played trombone in high school against
>>my
>>will, and of course, I got better on it, against my will, and though I
>>practiced clarinet every day, and even took lessons, I'm afraid that's no
>>match for a willing a faculty and an ensemble. So, I'm horribly defecient
>>in
>>my chosen instrument. College, as opposed to High School, seems far more
>>"just floooow with it."
>
>Keep in mind that your high school band director was probably trying to
>achieve the best balance he could with the resources available. In my
>experience as a school services rep for a music store, I hear band
>directors constantly complaining about the lack of low brass players (often
>accompanied by an overabundance of saxophones). I can understand his
>reluctance to release a trombone player, although, if he really understood
>that you intended to pursue clarinet on the college level, it would appear
>to be rather shortsighted on his part.

Bill,

He knew, but he didn't want to believe. He's a trombonist, and he
continually refered to himself. "Oh, I like dabbling in the clarinet too,
but our primary instrument is trombone, you can't just throw that away."
Except, I could, it was my choice to make, and he knew I was pursuing music
in some sort in college. I told him clarinet was what I cared about, but he
didn't want to believe me. Of course, he also made his daughter first
chair, when there are better trumpet players... <.<

Kevin Callahan
Student SFASU
School of Music

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