Klarinet Archive - Posting 000428.txt from 2001/08

From: "Kevin Callahan" <kionon@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Ab and C Clarinets
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:11:22 -0400

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From: <CmdrHerel@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Ab and C Clarinets

> 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?

I agree, which is why this whol thing has come up. A case of me wanting to
get better. If I didn't, why would I be an active member of this list?
Still, the fact I was never given the chance to even head in the direction
of information I wanted is a failing of the system as well. I hardly think
that the systems needs to do all the work. That kind of thinking leads to
the inability to think outside of "the box." However, I do think that if I
ask a question, I should be able to at least get a response pointing me in
the right direction. As I said, my high school director was not informative
at all, and he's been the director there for thirty years. What's keeping
him there is momentum and tradition. It is sad when a system can create a
faculty member that doesn't care enough about my goals to provide me with
either information or information on finding the information I want. In that
way, my success comes much harder.

> 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...)

Cherry? Lime? Do you have a preference?

Kevin Callahan
Student SFASU
School of Music

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