Klarinet Archive - Posting 000137.txt from 2002/04

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] A few newbie questions (long)
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:31:14 -0500

At 10:35 AM 4/3/02 -0500, Patricia A. Smith wrote:
<snip>

>One thing to be aware of - there are many careers she could have in music
>besides performing. Teaching, of course, is another possibility. Music
>therapy is also a growing field. Music business is quite the thing these
>days - in many urban and suburban areas there is a large enough population
>to support more than one music store.
<snip>

And, besides, a serious interest in music in general and clarinets in
particular need not exclude making one's living in another field. Such an
interest is not incompatible with a career in (say) science, an example I
choose since I know most about it. It will probably mean, as it has in my
case, that I will never reach what might have been my potential as a
musician, for lack of practice time in my youth. But this need not, and
has not for me, severely decreased my interest, enthusiasm and enjoyment of
music. And it gives me a place to go to escape the untestable arguments
about what, who or which being better than why, when or where. (Or the
converse.)

George

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