Klarinet Archive - Posting 000839.txt from 2002/07

From: "Kimber" <wolfcry01@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] kimber, the wrestler
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 03:09:40 -0400

Dear Rien, What exactly do you mean by "hard nuts"? I am playing everything
from the music from Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and The Little Mermaid to
Aaron Copland and Tchaicovski (pardon if I misspelled that one..:) ) I play
anything I can get my hands on. I am even getting the music to La Copa De La
Vida, or The Cup Of Life, by Ricky Martin. ;) My wrestling has been somewhat
put on halt, because my boyfriend is out of town. He's also on the team,
(though the two things do NOT merge) and has his own homemade mat. No one
else to practice on now. But I do expect good things next season. Thanks for
appreaciating me, Rien Stein and all the others who have. I knwo I am
probably acting like a typical teen, though I insist there is no such thing.
I apologize to all for this... ;) But, sigh, I guess I will have to suffer
the endless drama of being a teen until I grow up, if that ever actually
happens... wink wink. And, about the clarinet, why is it so hard to practice
after I have played my flute for a while. I've noticed I can play less and
less the more and more I play my flute. I just took up my flute, so I have
to practice to get to the level I am at on the clarinet. But in practicing,
my fingers have lost their memory and I can't play some of the more advanced
songs that were pretty easy for the longest time. And,l I forget a lot of
the fingerings now, even though I have ben playing for four years...why is
that?
Kimber the Wrestler
----- Original Message -----
From: rien stein <rstein@-----.nl>
Subject: [kl] kimber, the wrestler

> Dear Kimber
>
> Opinions on this list often are very mixed. Some people like it hot,
others like
> it cool. Some like popcorn and MacDonalds, others won't even enter a Mac
if they
> would receive $100 to eat one of these unfamous hamburgers (BTW, actually
a
> Hamburger is an inhabitant of a rather biggish German town, but never
mind). And
> some people enjoy mails of not-yet-quite-grown-ups, where others do not.
>
> I will not tell you what I personally think about your person -- honestly,
I
> couldn't, as I never met you. I used to be a teacher once, a long time
ago --
> actually I quit teaching before you were born. The most interesting part
of the
> job was not how well my pupils did on mathematics (there parents were of a
> diferent opinion though), but how they were, what their small and,
sometimes,
> really very big tears were about. All of them considered themselves very
mature
> and very certain about what they thought true. But one of yout famous
poets,
> Robert Frost, once wrote:
>
> >>
> they would not find me changed from him they knew --
> only more sure of all I thought was true.
> <<
>
> (Into my own, from the collection A boy's will).
>
> When I read these words the first time, I felt very much in unison with
them,
> and apparently more people do, otherwise this poem would not have been
taken
> into Frost's selected poems. It is a feeling I very often met with my 12
to 18
> years old students. It is a feeling I recognize in your maails.
>
> Now of course this list does not have the purpose to show us how mature
you are
> and how well you do on wrestling, I think that is why some purists atack
you:
> "This is Klarinet, and Clarinet ONLY" (mark k and c). In part I do agree
with
> them. But I enjoyed most of your mails, filled me with nostalgic feelings
about
> my time as a teacher (though I am happy I quit the job in time).
>
> For this reason I would say: Let us know more about you, and about how
your
> wrestling progresses. (Actually my second son, 4 years old, also started
to
> wrestle two years ago, but that is something that does not concern this
list.)
> But don't overdo it.
>
> Hope to hear more from you again, and especially how you progress. What do
you
> play right now? and do you consider that hard nuts, or does ot progress
fast?
>
> Good luck, also and especially when "Back to school" has come again.
>
> Rien, (the struggler).
>
>
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