[TPIN] Adults playing in student productions

[mike magers]

One major difference here.  We were unpaid volunteers, volunteering our time for this, just like for other sponsorship duties.  Some of us were more skilled than others, but that was not really the primary point of us playing.  If that still bugs you, I am sorry, but it doesn't change my opinion one bit.

Mike

----- Original Message ----
From: Rich Szabo <rich at richszabo.com>
To: tpin at tpin.okcu.edu
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 6:48:35 AM
Subject: Re: [TPIN] Adults playing in student productions

At 06:33 AM 3/30/2007, mike magers wrote:

>If students are excluded, I think it defeats the purpose, but if 
>every student who desires to is allowed to participate along side a 
>few adult parents, I don't see a problem.  I have since rotated out 
>of the group, but in my childrens' case, the playing parents were 
>the same ones who were the band and orchestra sponsors.  It was just 
>one more mentor situation, as you say.<<<<<<

-------------------------------------------

This is a major pet peeve of mine.

When I was in high school back in the dark ages we did not have ANY 
adults in the pit orchestra. The orchestra was comprised of ALL 
students. And we had to cut the parts.  Mark Wallendjack can verify 
this as we went to high school together.  We had some killer pit 
bands while we were there. Some of the players weren't up to snuff, 
but we put in the time and sweat to make it happen.

I think that hiring "ringers" to come in defeats the entire purpose 
of learning an instrument.  You don't see the football team hire 
professionals to fill out the front line do you?  But then again, the 
world has changed.  It's that mind set of instant 
gratification.  Look at the olympics. It used to be ALL amature 
athletes. Now we have the entire NBA and NHL as our olympic teams. It 
disgusts me.

Stepping off my soapbox and putting on my flame retardant suit.







 
____________________________________________________________________________________
Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. 
Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta.
http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html