Klarinet Archive - Posting 000860.txt from 2001/10

From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Please don't make me progress!
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:51:12 -0400

This sounds like my daughter's approach to the clarinet, which was "playing
the clarinet is ok, but I really don't want to practice."

She played long enough to satisfy me and is now in her second year of
school choral programs. She is in her first year of high school.

Gary

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At 03:40 AM 10/27/01, you wrote:
>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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