Klarinet Archive - Posting 000426.txt from 2001/08

From: CmdrHerel@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Ab and C Clarinets
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:11:20 -0400

In a message dated 8/27/01 11:26:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
leupold_1@-----.com writes:

<< > It's a sad thing when information critical to my education
> comes not from an educator I'm formally enrolled under, but
> must be sought out by myself in other areas.

I disagree. The information most critical to your education as
an instrumentalist, musician, and performer will come not from
your classroom education, but precisely as a product of your own
initiative and curiosity and ambition. >>

As in almost any profession. It's a good thing we don't stop learning at 23
(or ::cough::older) when we graduate.

I don't think I could have shoved any more information into my head than I
did in school, so rather than blame my education for what I do not know, I am
glad for what I *did* learn, and continue to add to it. Often colleagues who
have not heard me play in a while are surprised at how much my playing
changes in just a few years. I wonder why the surprise - This is what I do
for a living, and if I'm not going to spend my time getting better at it,
what's the point?

When I started college at 18 (not as a music major), my clarinet teacher
asked me what my goals were. I answered, "To keep getting better." Fifteen
years later Kal Opperman asked me the same thing. Ironically, my goals have
not changed and I answered along those same lines. Perhaps a little more
eloquently...

When I'm physically or mentally unable to keep learning, I hope somebody
takes my horns away from me. (And gives me a nice bowl of jello...)

Teri Herel

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