Klarinet Archive - Posting 000087.txt from 2005/03

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Expectations for professionals
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:21:04 -0500

Tony Pay wrote:

> In fact have to say that -- of course -- I found that performance
> deficient myself.

Could you explain some more about this?

I have for a long time now had the impression that what sets apart many
of the really significant workers---whether it's musicians, scientists,
artists, whatever---is that they're never satisfied with what they do;
they're always looking for something beyond, one step better.

I seem to remember you saying at one point that what you find sometimes
in teaching is not so much that students can't get it right as much as
that they can't hear when what they do is wrong.

Of course in a negative sense this could lead to paralysis, so it's also
important to have a sense not just of what's wrong but of how right
something is---so that one can say, "I know this is incomplete but at
this point in time I can say this without fear," or something like that.

What do you think?

-- Joe

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