Klarinet Archive - Posting 000511.txt from 2003/07
From: "Gene Nibbelin" <gnibbelin@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Rose Etude #8 (from 32) bar 10, last note: chromatic
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 22:49:42 -0400
Anne -
You have a real time waster on your hands - both your time and her time.
Unless she changes her attitude 180 degrees, be kind to both her and
yourself, by showing her the door.
Your experience with this student (?) reminded me of my first lesson when I
was 9 years old. My teacher asked, "Do you want to learn to play tunes or
do you want to learn to play the clarinet?" I said, "Clarinet" and we went
to work-embouchure, tone and technique. After 5 or 6 months of what some
students would have said were dull finger exercises, he said that he thought
that I should enter the grade and middle school solo contest in the spring.
Then I saw my first "tune" - the Adagio from the Mozart Concerto. I won
Superior Ratings in both County and State Contests.
I didn't realize until several years ago when I compared the dynamic
markings that were penciled in on my score with the Marcellus recording and
found many similarities (and this probably predated Marcellus' rise to
fame). I don't mean to imply that my "performance" could be compared to the
Marcellus recording, but it made me appreciate my teacher's abilities even
more. Maybe my juvenile musicianship contributed to my Superior Ratings.
Regards,
Gene N.
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From: Anne Lenoir [mailto:AnneLenoir@-----.net]
Subject: Re: [kl] Rose Etude #8 (from 32) bar 10, last note: chromatic
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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