Klarinet Archive - Posting 000096.txt from 2008/11

From: "David Blumberg" <blummy@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] re:[kl] Saxophone Methods?
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:25:30 -0500

Kevin, he has always gone by "Ted". But would be hard to find the book
looking up Ted instead of Arthur.

Just like Avrahm vs. Abe :)

I didn't realize you were that young!! Ted is around 75 (??) if even that.

btw - I read on a website that

"the Rousseau and Hegvik methods are also the only books marked "highly
recommended" by Larry Teal in The Art of Saxophone Playing. He does note,
though, that the ubiquitous Hovey method published by Rubank is "excellent."

I would have to dig up my copy of the Teal (buried in a mass of books) to
verify, but it's probably accurate.

David Blumberg

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"Kevin Fay" <kevin.fay.home@-----.net>
Subject: RE: [kl] re:[kl] Saxophone Methods?
Message-ID: <A6707A71DA0243BBA2A482E342D937B1@hal>
Keywords: Music

David Blumberg posted:

<<<Gary, the Arthur Hegvik Method books which are derived directly from the
James Collis Method (and which you are a great source of distribution of!)
would be my vote. . . . disclaimer: I taught his daughter>>>

Art Hegvik now goes by Ted. (For a dose, see www.tedhegvik.com). I get the
opportunity to hear him play once in a while - every Monday night, actually
- as he sits right behind me in our wind ensemble, wielding a bass clarinet.

Ted is well on his way to being twice my age by now (I'm 48); I suppose we
should take Alexander's advice and toss him if he misses a note or two.

There are a few problems with that, though.

First, in the years I've played with him, I've yet to hear him actually
*miss* a note: neither the new music we play nor Daphnis & Chloe with my
orchestra.

Second, while youngsters may feel differently, he still "plays rings around"
these folks. (Not all musicianship is technique, even for us athletically
minded presentation-first Americans).

Third, we all really *like* playing with Ted. He anchors our group about
eleven different ways.

Youth has a tendency to undervalue experience. Knowledge and wisdom are not
the same thing.

kjf

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