Klarinet Archive - Posting 000110.txt from 2006/04

From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?sarah=20elbaz?=" <sarah@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Business aspects of music performance & education
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:25:56 -0400

>> >
> Dee Flint wrote:
>
> Yet it is necessary.  We've been having kids graduate from high school with
> straight A's who cannot string together an intelligible sentence and who
> cannot balance a checkbook. 

Most of the gifted musicians that I know are usually very inteligent and educated. Is it possible to be a good musician with out beinng able to "string together an intelligeble sentence" . no.

?   Are we going to be so selfish as to put
> non-survival skills on the same level as skills necessary to function in
> society?  There's been decades of neglect that, unfortunately, require a bit
> of overdo to set right.
>
I am surprised that you call music a non-survival skill - for many musicians it is a mater of survival.

Sarah
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