[TPIN] RE: TPIN Digest, Vol 17, Issue 4

[Ellis Workman]

It's nonsense to think you can bifurcate "interpretation
of music" and "physical technique." ... Suppose you are
directing a HS orchestra. What are you going to tell
your strings about bowing a passage; even if you have
an idea in your head what it should sound like, you
are lost with a basic knowledge of bowing, and the
ability to demonstrate.

There is no substitute for be able to do what you are
presuming to teach.

-Ellis, no DMA




>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith Reynolds" <trumpet1 at nycap.rr.com>
>> I would say yes, you have to be able to play reasonably well on all
>> those
>> instruments to teach them.  I find it way too difficult to teach an
>> instrument I can't play.  I'm at the high school now and don't keep up
>> many of my secondary instrument chops (I have low brass and ww
>> specialists
>> once a week), but if you've never experienced slurring octaves on a
>> flute
>> how can you teach someone else how to do it?  It takes a bit of time to
>> become proficient on different instruments, but it comes with the job.
>> Keith Reynolds
>
> But some of the more advanced students don't need any instruction in the
> physical operation of their particular instrument, but are just using
> teachers for learning the proper interpretation of the music. If this is
> all
> you need, then you can learn from anyone who is advanced enough to know
> the
> proper way to interpret music. Basically, this is what I take lessons for.
> I
> "rub noses" with enough good trumpet players every week so that I can
> learn
> any technique I want from them. Things like "growling" while you play, or
> flutter tongueing while you play.
>     Even some very advanced professionals continue to take lessons to be
> able to properly interpret music. - I saw a televised lesson that Beverly
> Sills took from a lady who must have been well into her 90's. She would
> sit
> down and lean her chin on her cane and listen to B.S. sing, and then
> suddenly stop her by pounding her cane on the floor and saying, "No, No!"
> sing that high C with more emphasis! (or something like that) Sills was
> within 5 years of retirement at the time.....
>
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Ellis Workman, ARS KØELW
Grid EN33sx Olmsted County
Rochester, MN US