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  • VodkaDilc
    • Nov 2024

    The sort of comments we could do without.

    The Guardian has an account of a 14-year-old conductor:

    José Ángel Salazar, part of the country's successful El Sistema music programme, is not old enough to earn a wage, but the Youth Orchestra of Nueva Esparta is at his command


    Describing the boy's early interest in music, the writer observes:

    "I went to a brass concert with my dad and grandfather and I cried three times," he said. While most children his age would have wept from boredom, Salazar said he felt enraptured, as though he needed to be a part of what was going on. He dropped karate lessons and started learning the flute.

    40+ years of teaching suggests that, in my experience, young children would love the immediacy of going to a brass concert. Do we need Guardian hacks to give the impression that such an experience would produce tears of boredom for "most children"?
  • Flosshilde
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 7988

    #2
    Quite. Such a comment could be made about most adults (sorry, Brassbandmaestro!) equally truthfully - or probably more truthfully. As you say, children are more open to new experiences, especially if they haven't been told that they wouldn't like it.

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    • Eine Alpensinfonie
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 20570

      #3
      Musical education is becoming more and more geared to this kind of attitude.

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      • VodkaDilc

        #4
        Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
        Musical education is becoming more and more geared to this kind of attitude.
        We made such strides during the last four decades - such a shame to see them being reversed.

        I have sent an email to The Guardian Readers' Editor. If I get a response I will copy it here. (I expect something bland and meaningless!)

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        • Ferretfancy
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 3487

          #5
          Mr Rushbridger is a very keen pianist. He needs to improve the Guardian's guidelines, at least they have them!

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          • ahinton
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 16122

            #6
            Well well! - where's our habitual Guardian- (and Guardian-reader-) bashing Mr Pee when you need him?!

            I don't think that the paper's editor rushes his bridges, by the way...

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            • Flosshilde
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 7988

              #7
              There's nothing about the Murdochs & their rabble, or BSB, so the Pee remains silent.

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