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 Re: Does it matter whether or not you make All-State in high school?
Author: Paul Aviles 
Date:   2019-08-01 23:50

Michael Lowenstern had one of the best responses to this idea of competition. I don't have the video citation but maybe someone can dig this up. He basically says that unlike sports where performance is a clearly measurable task in time or inches, music is very subjective and there are soooooo many other strengths that one has for whatever weaknesses they MAY have. Mr. Lowenstern further said that he is comfortable with the things that he knows that he cannot do, but emphasizes those musical things at which he excels and has quite an enviable career as a professional bass clarinet player.


I for one couldn't even read music in high school. It's pretty funny when I had the equivalent of a 30 year reunion and was asked if I could read music now. I was initially put off by the question but quickly realized how that was how that person remembered me. Here must also add that I work with a completely blind clarinetist who plays FIRST in a local community band and he does it flawlessly. He had ididic memory and LISTENS to the sounds the conductor makes. He's more accurate then all the rest of us put together.


So just concentrate on the joy of music, what you do best and realize that as a temporal art (it disappears in the air as soon as the last note is over) nothing, NOTHING in the past matters.





.................Paul Aviles
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