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 Who said that?
Author: trish24 
Date:   2011-10-05 22:41

Recently,. I was jumping around all over the board, following links, etc and saw a quote something like " The trouble with the clarinet is that it never ends....?" and attributed it to a renowned teacher.
Can someone post the exact quote and author?

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 Re: Who said that?
Author: weberfan 
Date:   2011-10-06 16:06




I recently made reference on the BB to a quote from my teacher. I am an adult returnee to the clarient and began taking weekly lessons four years ago. I was briefly overwhelmed with all that I would have to learn (and relearn). At that moment, my teacher remarked, not unkindly:

"You know, you never get to the end of clarinet."

Perhaps that's what you were thinking of.

The upshot was this: rather than discouraging me from continuing, his comment made me more determined than ever to become proficient, branching out into the world of music theory as well.

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 Re: Who said that?
Author: Ken Shaw 2017
Date:   2011-10-06 17:46

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Winston Churchill

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 Re: Who said that?
Author: weberfan 
Date:   2011-10-06 18:05

So true, but Churchill probably never got past Rubank I.



Post Edited (2011-10-06 18:06)

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 Re: Who said that?
Author: JJAlbrecht 
Date:   2011-10-06 19:57

Playing the clarinet is a 12 (million!) step process. Take it day by day.  ;)

Jeff

“Everyone discovers their own way of destroying themselves, and some people choose the clarinet.” Kalman Opperman, 1919-2010

"A drummer is a musician's best friend."


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 Re: Who said that?
Author: Pastor Rob 
Date:   2011-10-07 01:13

Churchill also said, "It is not enough to do our best; sometimes we have to do what is required."

I reflect on that often as I try to play the presto movement in Mozart's Divertimento.

Pastor Rob Oetman
Leblanc LL (today)

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 Re: Who said that?
Author: ned 
Date:   2011-10-07 02:25

weberfan wrote: ''
"You know, you never get to the end of clarinet."

That's true also of bricklaying and banjo playing..............and pretty much anything else one wishes to master.

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 Re: Who said that?
Author: kdk 
Date:   2011-10-07 17:38

So, I've forgotten, too (though I remember reading the post where you related this anecdote before). Who was the teacher you're talking about?

Karl

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 Re: Who said that?
Author: weberfan 
Date:   2011-10-07 19:27

Karl,

My teacher: Don Mokrynski. He was a student of Stanley Hasty's at Eastman and then got his master's at Juilliard. He teaches primarily in northern New Jersey and is part of a trio called Palisades Virtuosi...clarinet, flute and piano.

chuck

p.s. In re-reading the original post I see she wrote "renowned teacher."
Don is very good, but I never claimed he was Bonade.



Post Edited (2011-10-07 19:41)

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