Klarinet Archive - Posting 000507.txt from 2003/07

From: AnneLenoir@-----.net (Anne Lenoir)
Subj: Re: [kl] Rose Etude #8 (from 32) bar 10, last note: chromatic
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:47:10 -0400

I must remark that I am very thrilled that you folks have covered this
topic so thoroughly, from a "fingering" standpoint as well as every
imaginable angle, including the philosophical and psychological
possibilities. I wish my students were so open minded and intelligent.
One 14-year-old girl pouted and said she didn't want to even try the
regular F# fingering because it was too "hard" and too much trouble to
learn the passage. She can barely play each measure without making some
sort of mistake. She doesn't have enough respect for me to trust me to
teach it to her correctly. She would rather just plow through it every
which-a-way. Every week I will work with her and get her to play one
measure over-&-over, then on to the next measure, then tie them
together, and so forth. Every week she sounds as though she has
"forgotten" how to play the clarinet. Yet she says that she "loves" her
clarinet lessons with me. She always wants me to stay a little longer to
play more duets. ANNIE

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