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Do you feel uneducated?

Author: contragirl
Date: 2003-12-07 22:19

I look at all my clarinet college friends that are playing all these cool solos, and I can't help realizing that I have NEVER heard of these pieces! I have a job at the library with the ICA collection hoping I will learn more about clarinet repetoire, but I don't feel that I am gettin aqauinted with them any better.

What I started doing is finding composers I know (and some I don't) and just randomly getting the music. Some ppl are like "I played that when I was in high school." Grrr! I didn't really play ANY solos in HS. :(

I feel like the area where I grew up was not much with rep. education or education of the instrument in general (which is what lead me to this page). A new friend of mine I met this year who plays flute, is from the same area as me, and who also works in the library with me, also feels that the area where we live didn't prepare us well. Was it our education program?

I feel that this has kept me from being a better player, that maybe if I had these challenging works in my rep. in HS, I could have been a lot better. I feel so behind. :(

Has anyone else felt this way?

Thanks,
Contragirl

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