Klarinet Archive - Posting 000160.txt from 2006/04

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Business aspects of music performance & education
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:23:25 -0400

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:23:25 +0000, "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.
>

This is a very probing statement. A few weeks ago, during a particular
dark philosophical discussion, I was telling a partner that, as a
computer programmer, I sometimes worried that I possessed absolutely no
skills that would be of value in a post-nuclear-apocalypse world, and
might be more valued for my protein content. He pointed out that the
ability to play keyboard and clarinet, and the ability to teach square
dancing, both of which I have, might turn out to be in high demand in
such a world.

It gave me more than a few moments pause.

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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