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Re: brush up on clarinet skills?

Author: William
Date: 2006-02-24 14:19

Not to discourage your clarinetting aspiration, but if your goal is music therapy, it might be advisable to also pursue keyboard or guitar skills as well as the wide variety of percussive instruments. My neighbor practices music therapy at a nursing home and plays the accordian, guitar and piano for her residents who are encouraged to accompany on percussion--sticks, mallets, wood block, triangle, etc--even spoons and coat hangers!! Another college certified music therapist (also a remarkable avant-gaurd tenor sax and flute artist) who worked at my old school used every percussive instrument in my band room as well as tennis rackets and call and response verse. My point is, for music theraphy in practice, there are a lot of instruments and so many different activities that are useful for needy students--not just the clarinet.

Music therapy is a quality vocation that is often underated and underfunded in schools and elsewhere. In school budgets, it is most often the first music class to be cut. Too bad--I have personally seen dramatic positive results in many students who have benefited from music therapy classes. All the best to you and your career choice.

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