[TPIN] Re: High School Directors and playing their instruments

[lamb95stew at wideopenwest.com]

I have found that, OVERALL, those that don't play/quit playing are ones that were
pretty marginal players anyway. I've also found that those that don't play are the
ones that lose their kids' respect more readily. Ya gotta be an example if you're
gonna talk the talk of being a true musician.

Michael Stewart, DMA
http://www.stewmuse.com/Home.html
http://www.geocities.com/cbc95stew/StewHome.html
The answer is... AIR!

---------- Original Message -----------
From: jsiverso at student.umass.edu
To: TPIN at tpin.okcu.edu
Sent: Tue,  4 Jul 2006 12:22:31 -0400
Subject: [TPIN] Re: High School Directors and playing their instruments

> I think there is one important thing we are leaving out in this 
> discussion... Yes the demands of a high school band director are huge, but 
> some are able to go out and gig and still make time to play. I think these 
> may tend to be from the programs that are already very solid programs and 
> have been for years, if they are competitive. If the band director is in 
> the process of trying to rebuild a program, or build it in the first place,
>  that takes up a huge amount of extra time beyond what the other guy has 
> to do.
> 
> However, that isn't really my point anyway. The thing everyone is leaving 
> out 
> (unless I missed it somewhere) is family. Single band directors don't have 
> to go home after work. Those with significant others and/or children do. 
> My high school band director has a wife and a young girl, he really didn't 
> have the time to practice or gig, period. We could hardly ever get him to 
> go out with us after a concert, which he used to.
> 
> Just another thought for us all.
> 
> ~~Jared Iverson
> 
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