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/archive%40jab.org
