Klarinet Archive - Posting 000990.txt from 2004/10

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Joe Allard
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:08:23 -0500

There's more, of course. Sometimes "method" is the result of some offhanded
or even deliberate remark that a teacher makes in the course of making some
point. The student then, for any of several reasons, elevates it to the
level of an "approach" or a "method" and passes it on as such. Wright's use
of the "rubber band" image (also "gasket") at the one lesson I took with him
40 years ago is an example - he only meant it as a graphic way to describe
something. Nothing more. I'm sure I was pinching the daylights out of the
reed and these were his attempts at correction. I'm sure he used the same
image with many students as needed, but not as any kind of generalized
"method" or "approach" (much less *his* "method" or "approach"). Evidently,
so did Keith Stein in his book, but by putting it in print he apparently
made the elevation process easier.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Pay [mailto:tony.p@-----.org]
> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 6:31 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Joe Allard
>
>
> On 1 Nov, Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear List,
> >
> > I decided to dig up my copy of the wonderful dissertation done
> by Dr. Debra
> > Jean McKim which uses as source material recordings of Joe
> speaking about
> > his own pedagogy and opinions. My apologies to those on the
> list which are
> > only interested in the pedagogy and opinions of currently alive
> teachers
> > (or their own pedagogy and opinions). Those people are
> encouraged to move
> > to the next message right about now.
>
> Typically, you cite other 'opinions' -- as other know-nothings
> have done here
> before you -- without much understanding yourself of what those
> opinions were
> trying to sustain, or to correct.
>
> It requires judgement to know what to say to *anyone*, because you cannot
> speak to *everyone*.
>
> Tony
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