Klarinet Archive - Posting 000155.txt from 2002/02

From: David Naden <dnaden@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Program Notes
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:22:10 -0500

Fred--

No flame...just thank you. I also sent a similar response to Heidi. For
all middle/junior high and high school students on this list, doing research
is a basic part of college education for ANY major. Before asking the list
for help, see what you can find out on your own. For all college and
conservatory students on this list, basic research should be nothing new,
especially for all thouse required musicology/music history classes.

David S. Naden, MMus
Cal State University Los Angeles

-----Original Message-----
From: Laurence Young [mailto:klarinette@-----.net]
Subject: Re: [kl] Program Notes

Jeesh, Mr. Jacobowitz, you sound like my grandmother.

Larry: "How do you spell antediluvian?"

Grandmother: "Look it up."

Larry: "How can I look it up without knowing how to spell it?"

Grandmother: "Sound it out."

Sincerely,

Larry with tongue firmly in cheek.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Jacobowitz" <fbjacobo@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Program Notes

> Heidi,
> I've ranted on this subject before in Klarinette but not lately, so
> here goes:
>
> Any clarinetist old enough to go to a library ought to be able to do some
> reading and find out about composers. Also, recording liner notes are a
> great source of tidbits for program notes. If you are out in podunk
nowhere
> I can understand not being able to find info but anyone at any college
> worth it's name ought to be able to get to a Groves Dictionary of Music or
> at least some biographies of composers. Even the Britannica has some
> information on many of the more well-known composers. Librarians are
> particularly good at this, so ask them for help.
> I know alot of people are in the "why do my own research when I can
> just ask people?" camp but it seems pretty antithetical to the idea of a
> well-trained musician that they can't do the most basic of musicological
> research about the works they are performing. I myself have been stymied
> trying to find out about some obscure composer but I have always made it a
> point of honor to exhaust the basic, accessible research media before
> resorting to asking people if they have ever heard of the composer.
> In short, tsk, tsk. Go look it up.
>
> Cordially yours,
> Fred
>
> NOW LET THE FLAME WARS BEGIN!!!!!!!!!!! ; - )
>

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