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Re: Arioso versus Allora

Author: L. Omar Henderson
Date: 2006-08-02 23:56

It indeed would be a shame to loose you Sherman. There are many nuances in playing, performing, phrasing, and just life experiences that are not written down anywhere and only come through the oral - in this case written words - of master players. Much as the past masters in any artistic field live on through their students it should be so with our little segment of the music field.

I am old enough to remember when my college professors were "Gods" and no one ever questioned or corrected their inevitable human failings but when I became one myself after the 70's I found a new questioning environment by students and IMHO this is a better learning environment where the teacher has to know their material better, in more depth, and know it well enough to defend the material imparted. Unfortunately, this whole pendulum swing has gone to the extreme where college professors must now be entertaining and not too tough because their department ratings and ultimately tenure is based on popularity surveys of their students. Later in life I now feel that some of the toughest courses were actually the best but would have given the professor a poor popularity rating at the time. The point being that there is now a questioning population everywhere that has to be shown proof of fact and does not value only experience and feeling - maybe less so in the arts than analytical pursuits but still prevalent.

I still feel that certain aspects of the clarinet instrument are amenable to scientific investigation and improvement. Most of the mechanics of the instrument follow principals in physics and chemistry. Playing the instrument is the art form. Exploring the purely physical aspects can be studied using a scientific approach. To follow this approach must involve using the scientific principal and following scientific method. Some aspects obviously cross over between art and science but both sides should take from the other that which is valuable.
L. Omar Henderson

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