Klarinet Archive - Posting 000366.txt from 2003/07

From: Claudia Zornow <claudia.zornow@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Ignorance and competence
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:34:57 -0400

Tony Pay wrote:

> I do have to say, though, that my own quite wide experience of students
> hasn't yet involved anyone with the degree of awareness of how their
> playing fails to come up to scratch that you describe.
>
> And, though I would of course want to guard against contributing to that
> sort of inappropriate preoccupation if I were to encounter such a
> student, I think that the overwhelming tendency is in the opposite
> direction -- and is certainly in the opposite direction on this list.

People may not have the same *degree* of awareness of their flaws as the
character in the novel, but I've seen in other people, and certainly
myself, an awareness of one's flaws and feelings of frustration and
even hopelessness about them. Of course the healthy attitude would be,
"I realize that in area <x> I'm not up to snuff; I shall practice more
and improve." In reality it's easy to have the attitude, "I'll never be
good enough and I may as well give up."

Claudia

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