Klarinet Archive - Posting 000859.txt from 2001/10

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Please don't make me progress!
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 10:55:59 -0400

I don't know what you said to them when you "explained to them why that
doesn't work," and I'm sure you've successfully cleared the immediate
hurdle. But it would be interesting to know, if you asked them the question,
why they felt this way, and strongly enough to approach you.

With genuine curiosity,

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cindy Christensen [mailto:cindy@-----.de]
> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 6:40 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Please don't make me progress!
>
>
> For the first time in my 20 year teaching clarinet career, two students
> (5th graders) who have a lesson together came to me last week and
> announced to me that they don't want to progress any further. They would
> like to stay in their current method book for a total of two years and
> don't want to do new things any more. They just want to repeat things
> they have already done in the book. Of course I explained to them why
> that doesn't work, but it was funny to hear them actually tell me they
> don't want to progress on the clarinet for the next 2 years. They seemed
> to have worked it all out.
> Cindy in Germany
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