Klarinet Archive - Posting 000739.txt from 2004/10

From: Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Appealing to the superficial
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:00:27 -0400

At 03:39 PM 10/25/2004 +0100, Tony Pay wrote:
>I spent several months just after university, teaching mathematics to 12-16
>year olds, in 1966. Even that appalled me.

What did you find so appalling?

> > And you say I'm appallingly sure of myself.
>
>Yes, you are. People like you are why we took both of our children out of
>school at age around 8. The younger one subsequently went back in at 15, but
>that was his choice. The elder one just got top marks in his year, and a
>prize for that, in his university finals, without ever going back into
>school.

I would submit that the children of Tony Pay have a distinct advantage
whether you want to see yourself as a teacher figure to them or not. Not
every child is so lucky and as such your anecdotal experience hardly proves
the rule.

I'll add that you do not know me.

> > PS: You never answered my question about playing K622 with a band.
>
>No, I didn't. But I don't even know that I would necessarily accept an
>engagement with all even standard orchestras, or conductors.

Given your understandable indecision, would you openly criticize a soloist
who did accept such an engagement with either a band or a modern (I'm not
going to take a pot shot at your use of the word "standard") orchestra?

-Adam

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