Klarinet Archive - Posting 000988.txt from 2001/10

From: lubydjackson@-----. Jackson)
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Band vs orch eefer range
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:35:44 -0500

Hold us person. You don't know anything about me and I don't take what
you're saying. I was simply voicing sentiments. They could have been
factual or they could have just been idle feelings.

Since I didn't blame you personally, why do you take offense to this unless
this bears some truth to some foul practices you've done to students in the
past?

>From your name, if you sit on the couch all the time that means you're a
couch potato. How then can a potato talk or speak?
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Guy on the Couch" <jnohe@-----.Edu>
Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Band vs orch eefer range

> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Luby D. Jackson wrote:
>
> > play a part that no one plays. You have to realize that eefer was with
held
> > from me for over 14 years of my clarinet career because conductors
wanted to
> > exploit me for their purposes. They stuck me on 1st/solo Bb clarinet or
> > tough bass parts to benefit their own acclaim and not allowing me to
really
> > shine on the eefer, which I was ordained to play.
>
> Even though I'm not a music educator (I teach privately, though), I find
> this statement just about offensive. You blame someone else for
> squelching your great talents? What rubbish! Exploitation? Hardly! No
> one held a gun to your head - you could have walked away at anytime. Did
> they threaten to destroy you if you had taken up Eefer on the side? I
> would hardly think so.
>
> I don't blame my shortcomings concerning saxophone on my high school
> conductor, who kept me on bass clarinet. I blame myself - there was
> nothing to stop me from practicing my brains out with the saxophone on my
> own time, and who's fault is it that I didn't? MINE, not his. If you
> didn't spend any time playing Eb clarinet during those horrible, horrible
> 14 years, it's YOUR fault, not your educator's. They don't dictate what
> you do at home, on your own time. If you had wanted it half as bad as you
> make it seem, you would have played Eefer of your own attrition elsewhere.
> Don't seek to lay the blame on an educator who's at least partially
> responsible for where you are today.
>
> Such ungratefulness is the opposite of professionalism.
>
> J. Shouryu Nohe
> Grad Assistant, New Mexico State University
> "I think we have a ghost in our house." - Kaycee Nicole
> "I should probably be playing Buffet." - Steve Moore
>
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