Author: Claire Annette
Date: 2008-08-07 12:50
The thread about the 13-year old prodigy and the question as to why there are no U.S. prodigies (I loved David's response!) prompted me to submit this for discussion: Here in the U.S., in general, are we seeing a decline in young clarinetists?
This summer, I became aware of a need for clarinetists to play for a symposium at a local university. The university's band director told me that there weren't enough student clarinetists to recruit--not because it was summer--from the university. He said he's personally seen a decline in clarinetists entering colleges and universites.
This man's mentor, a famous college band director and composer, told me that he noticed the same trend in his area of the country. He feels that the clarinet is losing "popularity" among beginning and high school students.
Are you seeing this happen? What do you think? If it truly is a trend, is it happening with other instruments as well?
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