[TPIN] Beginning of the End?

[William Graham]

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From: "John Ervin" <jervin at cfl.rr.com>
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Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [TPIN] Beginning of the End?


> It's considered rather insulting to intimate that the choral singers are
> not musicians in the Choral circles that I run, by the way.  Singers and
> Instrumentalists maybe.
>
> -jfe-

For most of my life, musicians didn't speak about singers as 
musicians....There is some justification for this. When I was in High 
School, back in the 50's, I joined the choir. It was the first year that our 
school had a choir, and that year, we went to the high school competition in 
upstate New York, and took second place. - Most of us had no musical 
training at all, and the reason we were so good was entirely because of the 
choir director....She was an excellent teacher. But if we had had a school 
band, and all the musicians in the band had as little knowledge of music as 
the choir had, well....I think you know what the result would have 
been....There just isn't nearly as much musicianship, and training, and 
hours of practice required of singers as there is of instrumentalists.