[TPIN] Beginning of the End?

[John Ervin]

I understand, I was talking about the local Bach Festival Choir which 
has been around for about 70 years.  The Singers in the group are 
usually pretty experienced.  I have been in the Choir for 20 years 
myself as has my wife.  Not as long as I've played trumpet, but a long 
time. 

William Graham wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Ervin" <jervin at cfl.rr.com>
> Cc: <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
> 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.
>
>

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