Gratuities

[Jeff Tanner]

On Monday, March 1, 2004, at 05:44 PM, Wimblees@aol.com wrote:

> The flute prof said the accompanist is kind of flaky, and not to take 
> it out on the flute player.


The flute prof is doing a good job of shifting blame.  It is the 
professor who is at fault here.  It is the professor's job to teach the 
student that logistics are integral to any performance.  Unfortunately, 
the flute, violin, voice, trumpet, etc., professors are fairly ignorant 
of the logistics involved with providing a piano accompaniment.  As 
long as we keep bending through hoops in an effort to "not take it out 
on the flute player", they will remain so.  So, I suppose in that, we 
share a part of the blame.  But the professor was correct.  It was not 
the fault of the flute player.

I have begged for some sort of communication device to be installed 
into the recital scheduling process that informs those involved with 
logistics, er, the piano tuner, of what's going on.  If you want your 
recital recorded, you have to fill out a recording request form and 
submit your money, or it doesn't get recorded.  But unknown to everyone 
except the piano tuner, there is no channel of communication to the 
piano tuner if an event takes place.

I was wondering how common this is at other schools.
Jeff