Klarinet Archive - Posting 000187.txt from 2004/10

From: Haschengeliebter@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Differing skill levels
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:03:12 -0400

why not just play for the love of music...that is what I would do...and I
think every part is important and sometimes 3rd is the most important...I would
just love to play...and if it got to hard id ask for help...people need to just
have fun...

~Krista~

In a message dated 10/6/2004 10:52:04 AM Pacific Standard Time,
bbtkal@-----.net writes:
Allen Levin wrote:
>
> [ ... ] And (I must admit) a couple of players
> stopped attending rehearsals because they didn't want to be challenged. I
> still fret about that. I didn't want to take away the fun.

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That's a tough aspect of a non-audition group, and there's no good answer. If
you don't challenge the players then they don't improve. And having players
that can't handle the material makes it much less fun for everyone else, no
matter how much fun it might be for themselves to sit and noodle. So how does one
compromise?

I play in a community orchestra that is really not very good. It would be
great to eliminate about a third of the strings because they drag the rest of the
orchestra down. The problem is that if we pick less challenging material to
cater to the poorer players, then the more talented players tend to think of
leaving. And when we play the harder stuff sometimes we just don't sound very
good, and of course that frustrates the better players as well.

I also play in a community band that is very good. We play hard stuff and
because the band overall is pretty good I think that the members want to work
harder. In that group the poorer players tend to leave because it's more
frustrating to them to not be able to keep up.

Erik Tkal

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