Klarinet Archive - Posting 000348.txt from 2005/08

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Composers as teachers
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:17:25 -0400


Tony Pay posted a thoughtful, interesting, well-written message about
composers as teachers.
Vann Joe Turner replied,

>Tony,
>
>Though we've disagreed in the past, I
>applaud you writing this as you did.
>I've copied it and printed it. Thanks for
>both the acumen and the eloquence.

That's the complete message, and to me it looks gracious and
straightforward. It looks like the offer of an olive branch. I remember
the previous fracas and I can understand that Tony Pay would still feel
resentful about it. However, maybe I'm being simple-minded here, but I
can't detect any hint of hidden meanings, sly digs or other cause for new
offense in the message above.

Tony, I like you, and I've defended you in the past, but with the best will
in the world, I can't understand why you responded as you did, by calling
Van Joe Turner an idiot, among other unpleasantries, unless the catalyst
was something extraneous, something not apparent to readers of this list.
If whatever caused you to go non-linear is something that's none of our
business, then I don't want to know about it, but if Van Joe Turner got hit
by a blast that might have been better aimed elsewhere, then I think he
deserves to know that much, at least.

Lelia Loban

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