In a message dated 07/07/2006 21:58:55 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What good does it do to teach others to practice what they don't like, when the end result is their * quitting music altogether? *"Sometimes" is the important missing word here. One particular student of mine comes to mind - She had to be bullied into practising things she didn't like doing. Giving her only what she enjoyed would have been to fail her and, since I was being paid to teach her, would have been to take money under false pretences. She cried almost every lesson during one period leading up to her final exam. Last Wednesday, some 15 years after her last lesson with me, she came to listen the rehearsal of the music I had written for her wedding and we remembered the occasion fondly. What she wanted and what she needed were two different things: then she couldn't see it, now she can. If my mother had only fed me the ice cream I liked I would be dead by now. All the best, Lawrence "þaes ofereode - þisses swa maeg" _http://lawrenceyates.co.uk_ (http://lawrenceyates.co.uk/) Dulcian Wind Quintet: _http://dulcianwind.co.uk_ (http://dulcianwind.co.uk/) _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
