Klarinet Archive - Posting 000899.txt from 2004/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@------.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] not just the music department
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:10:54 -0500

At 08:18 AM 3/16/2004 -0600, Gary Drennan wrote:
>Hey Bill!
>
>I too remember the three tracks and band was open to all, UNLESS you droped
>below a C average overall. Then you could not go on extracirricular trips
>like exchange concerts or do sports. Our auditions, however, were grueling!
>Squeaks did not get in until they did not squeak! All of us were given free
>lessons through the school by the first chairs of the U.S. Coast Guard band,
>who came down every week to do so. Thye were only an hour away. Excellent
>players!

Sounds like YOUR band program was very serious, at quite another level from
mine.

>SO much comes from band. Administrators are cutting off a major part of what
>an education can do. Sports makes heros for a day, music makes players for a
>lifetime.

I have always maintained that band is just like a team sport and provides
nearly all of the same benefits -- "team music" if you will. But you don't
have to be athletically gifted or 6' 8" tall. And how many high school
football players do you know who are still playing the game 30 or 40 years
after graduation?

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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