{"id":144,"date":"2002-12-28T03:06:25-05:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-28T11:06:25+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=144"},"modified":"2002-12-28T03:06:25-05:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-28T11:06:25+00:00","slug":"music-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/12\/28\/music-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Music ed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Went out this evening with my sibs and my sister’s boyfriend to Maggie’s<\/a>, a jazz lounge, art gallery and restaurant about which I must write more later. While listening to three sets by John Noubarian (piano) and Ben Heywood (guitar), we got to talking to a couple of attractive, similarly-named women (Tamara and Tammy) about… well, all sorts of things, as conversations with strangers are wont to progress… but for the purposes of this entry, I’ll focus on a certain topic related to music.<\/p>\n\n

The comment arose that a lot of musicians are teachers. I missed the exact details, because I was sitting at the wrong end of the table, but I believe Tammy’s a teacher and less-active musician, and Tamara’s an active musician who used to teach. (Could be wrong on all counts, though.) The rest of us are somewhat active musically–Chris belongs to a band<\/a>, my sister’s in a choir and seems to know most of the members of the Winnipeg music scene<\/a>, my brother plays baritone and piano from time to time, and I play trumpet occasionally and basically enjoy the abilities of others<\/a>–but none of us teaches in any way. I’m not sure I agree with the statement as presented, but the inverse is true in my experience: I know a lot<\/strong> of teachers who are musicians, but only a few<\/a> musicians who teach. (Granted, my view may be tainted: more than half of the members of the big band<\/a> I used to perform with are teachers.)<\/p>\n\n

I’m subscribed to two weblogs that regularly discuss teaching or playing, Teacher: Year One<\/cite><\/a> and scottandrew.com<\/cite><\/a>, but neither has mentioned the other topic except in passing. (dive into mark<\/cite><\/a> deserves mention here too–while not explicitly about teaching, it’s the site from which I’ve learned the most, most often how to push the envelope<\/a> and use HTML the way it’s meant to be used.) And a number of the musicians and teachers I know don’t have any particular talent in the other field.<\/p>\n\n

So all of this makes me curious: are there more teachers who are musicians, or musicians who are teachers? Subject taught is irrelevant, but order is important–an English teacher who plays violin may consider herself a musician first, and a pianist who teaches music may consider himself a teacher first.<\/p>\n\n

Comments are welcome, as always; you can post directly to this entry or send your thoughts to me via e-mail<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>

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