Today was spent molding young minds...most of them willingly. They seem perfectly satisfied with listening to me while actually in my presence, though my words apparently fall out of their heads and stay in the studio with me, at least based on how many of them actually DO what I say.
Nah, that's not entirely fair. I have a number of quite diligent students, within the time constraints of their way-too-busy schedules. It must be hard to master all the many things they seem to be studying. I have students who are taking lessons or classes outside of school in 3 or 4 things. Surely you can't really master that many things.
I guess dabbling is the "thing" right now. My goal might be for them to master the trombone but I don't think that's the goal of many of my students. It seems more like another notch on their resumes, mostly for the consumption of the college of their choice. Ironically, several of them could be really good, if they would put in a bit more time. Not even a lot. Just a bit more.
Sigh....
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