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> My experience with > talented young performers is the higher you let them raise > the standards, the higher they push them. I had a funny experience with my son this week along these lines. I'm playing Rossin's La Gazza Ladra overture arranged for concert band in a concert Sunday, and I've been practicing a particularly difficult, for me, passage at rehearsal 25. I jokingly told me son I'd give him $100 if he could play it at the indicated tempo of 152 to the quarter, figuring it would simply never happen. He had it ready just a few notches slower within 20 minutes, and the next day he played it perfectly at the required tempo. When I told him I was frankly surprised that he could do it at all, given that all the music he sees is in simple keys and this is in written Db major, his response was, "I was so glad to finally have a challenge - everything I have to play is always so easy." We're going to get him to play in the community band with me this summer, earlier if we can schedule it. He's ready for that and likely more. -S- _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org