Klarinet Archive - Posting 000019.txt from 2010/02

From: Curtis Bennett <curtis.bennett@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Buck up friends. It's going to get worse
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:56:38 -0500

D'oh! That's Japan, not China. Ok, I stand corrected on at least a
couple of levels.

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Curtis Bennett
<curtis.bennett@-----.com> wrote:
> That's interesting on a couple of levels. The first being how many
> girls are in that band. That certainly doesn't mirror the situation at
> the professional level, where the inverse seems to be the case.
>
> As for the no sheet music thing - it's possible they've basically
> drilled the music into those kids heads such that they just ended up
> memorizing it.
>
> Lastly, China's a populated place. I'm sure you could find students
> here just as talented, but they don't have easy access to ensembles
> like that shown here. China has a billion people after all. Even if
> only 1 kid in 10,000 could play that well, when you've got 500
> thousand kids to pool from, it's easy to throw a group like that
> together.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9p0Acf-SbU&sns=em
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>> Dan Leeson
>> dnleeson@-----.net
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