Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2022-07-24 13:38
Hi Fuzzy,
Yes I think that is absolutely right. Things are tricky at the moment because funding for schools is very low and the understanding of specific needs is quite advanced. Getting the low budget to stretch to the very complex needs is tricky I think.
Thinking a bit more about this overnight, I think that maybe this is more of an issue with composers than performers in the musical world. Would you think that's right?
When I read Steven Isserlis's book about the lives of the great composers it was clear that some of them would have been diagnosed as having special educational needs if they had been in the school system now.
Mozart in particular seemed to fit a childhood ASD diagnosis very closely indeed. Beethoven definitely had some funny stuff going on in later life that was to do with not understanding or accommodating social rules. Schumann seemed to have some really complex issues, but I have no idea what the formal diagnosis would be if he was looked at by a medic these days.
I really felt for them all then I was reading the book tbh. They seemed to have such a hard time.
(I should mention that I also have a level 1 ASD diagnosis, while I'm saying all this.)
Jen
Adult learner, Grade 3
Equipment: Yamaha Custom CX Bb, Fobes 10K CF mp,
Legere Soprano Sax American Cut #2, Vandoren Optimum German Lig.
Post Edited (2022-07-24 13:59)
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