Klarinet Archive - Posting 000858.txt from 2001/10

From: AnneLenoir@-----.net (Anne Lenoir)
Subj: Re: [kl] Please don't make me progress!
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 10:34:43 -0400

Dear Cindy,
One thing that I enjoy about teaching from Abe Galper's clarinet
method, is that all of the passages are so beautiful that we could play
them forever. When a student plays a passage that could be better, which
is a lot of the time, I mark the passage with a little tiny gold star.
At the end of the lesson when I assign the next lesson, I assign all of
the passages with the gold stars. The passages are so beautiful that the
students love this approach. Abe tells me that Book 2 is even better,
but we haven't got there yet. I confess that I love to play the passages
myself. Abe has written them in a way that makes the progress come
naturally. For instance, Abe wrote a passage in f minor that sounds so
great that everybody gets it right away even though there are a lot of
Ab's in the passage. I enjoy re-assigning practically everything in the
book. Even memorizing some. ANNIE

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