Klarinet Archive - Posting 000128.txt from 2006/04

From: "Dee Flint" <deeflint01@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Business aspects of music performance & education
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:12:52 -0400


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From: "lora crighton" <lcrighton@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Business aspects of music performance & education

On 4/15/06, sarah elbaz <sarah@-----.com> wrote:

> ? 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.
>

For me it is not really a survival skill - I have a boring office job
which pays the bills - but it is one of the things that makes life
worth living. Functioning in society is about more than being able to
read and handle your finances. Equally important is being able to
understand the culture that you are part of, and you can't really do
that without some education in music and the other arts.

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If you cannot read adequately, you cannot understand the culture. You
cannot get a decent education in music and the other arts without good
reading skills. No one is going to sit down with you and narrate the
history of Baroque music to you.

And if you cannot handle your finances, what good does cultural appreciation
do you when you cannot partake of it? Everything costs money one way or
another.

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