May-be, Schumanns op.70 Adagio & Allegro is the only piece this teacher knows. Who knows ?????? I said "the only piece this teacher knows".
################################################################ Am 12.11.2010 um 07:59 schrieb Wilbert Kimple: > > Hello all. > > I really want your honest opinion on the following. > > I have a friend, a college freshman non-music major, who is playing in a > local college/community orchestra. Her horn teacher has her working on > Schumann's Adagio and Allegro. I feel this selection is entirely too > difficult for a freshman. I saved it for my Graduate Recital! > > This student does not yet know her major and minor scales and arpeggios, two > octaves. She has not worked through any type of exercise book such as Singer > of Standley. She has never been introduced to the Farkas warm up. She has > never played her way through Kopprasch book one. > > Am I out of line here? I always thought that to play music, let alone to > play music musically, one had to have a firm foundation in technique. How do > you feel? > > I've seen this teacher do the same type of things to other students in the > past. I feel she is totally wrong, and is placing a brick wall before her > students that they just can't climb over. It's one thing to challenge a > student, it's another thing to frustrate them. > > Wilbert in SC > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
