Klarinet Archive - Posting 000607.txt from 2003/04

From: "Will Casada" <clarinetcowboy@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Questioning Authority
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:39:03 -0400

I'm not sure where it is in relation to where you are, but there are
some good clarinet players at the North Carolina School of the Arts. I
think that is in Winston-Salem(sp?). There are probably also some good
teachers, or at least better than yours, in Raleigh and Charlotte. Or, if
you are closer to TN, you could probably arrange a once a month or whatever
lesson in my hometown of Knoxville with Gary Sperl at UT.
These are just some ideas of where you could find someone to teach you
outside of your school, or even transfer. It would probably be wise to find
out who's teaching at the colleges in your more immediate vicinity too.

>--- "Buckman, Nancy" <nebuckman@-----.edu> wrote:
> > Sam,
> >
> > Ask if there is the possibility of doing independent study for
> > credit with an outside teacher. Most schools worth there salt
> > allow this sort of thing where they can't provide for an
> > individual's needs. We do it here at the community college
> > where I teach all the time. You might even take theses
> > e-mails to your department head and show him/her what the list
> > members have to say. It certainly can't hurt. I wouldn't let
> > someone who doesn't even play the instrument teach an
> > elementary school student, let alone someone who's working
> > toward a degree. That's pure folly. You can always transfer
> > to another school too. Not the ideal solution either, but it
> > can be done.
> >
> > Nancy
> >
> > Nancy E. Buckman, Technical Assistant
> > School of Health Professions, Wellness and Physical Education
> > Anne Arundel Community College
> > Arnold, MD 21012-1895 USA
> > Phone 410-777-2316 Fax 410-777-2233
> > E-mail nebuckman@-----.edu
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Samantha McDaniel [mailto:jupitertc@-----.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 9:20 PM
> > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > Subject: [kl] Questioning Authority
> >
> >
> > I think I will take Bill's advice, and question authority for
> > a bit. I've
> > actually have in the back of my mind for quite sometime.
> >
> > My situation is this: I attend a fairly small (about 4,500)
> > private
> > university in the middle of nowhere North Carolina. I am the
> > only clarinet
> > student in the music department (there are probably 40-50
> > students total in
> > the department). The school can not afford a clarinet
> > professor, a
> > saxophone professor, and an oboe professor, or so they say
> > they can not
> > afford them. So they have hired a doubler to teach all three
> > instruments,
> > who's primary instrument is saxophone and secondary instrument
> > is oboe.
> >
> > Don't get me wrong about doublers, I think they are awesome
> > musicians. And
> > I like my teacher very much. However, lately I question her
> > knowledge of
> > the clarinet. I have NEVER heard her play clarinet, and she
> > actually
> > encouraged me to get a new clarinet (for those who haven't
> > read some of the
> > previous posts, I play a Leblanc Concerto). I feel like I
> > have not achieved
> > anything in my playing, and that I have been playing the same
> > way for the
> > past two or three years.
>
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