Klarinet Archive - Posting 000051.txt from 2011/07

From: "Kevin Fay" <kevin.fay.home@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Lessons
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:13:26 -0400

Deborah Shaw posted:

<<<The . . . local high school director seems to think that one of his
students needs to move on from taking lessons from me to the local college
professor because I have been teaching her for so long. My question was,
what is the problem if she sits well above the college directors students in
both region and state bands and just plays great. He just thinks that after
so many years I must not have anything to offer her. No other reason than
his own formula or preconceived idea that a change is always good.>>>

First I'll ask a question - do you still have something to offer this
particular student? I suspect that the answer is yes, and that lessons
aren't spent listening to her practice, with you having nothing to say.
They seem to be working, no?

As far as the high school band director goes, some of them are very good. I
suspect that this is not one of them; a "formula" for "moving on" based on a
number of years is about as smart as insisting that *all* of the students
use a Vandoren B45, since that's what he heard was the best from back in his
college days.

In the words of one of my favorite 20th century philosophers, "what a
maroon."

kjf

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