Whoa!

Just thought I would take a minute and do some writing before I go to school.

Man, things have gotten busy real quick. I think I am going to start having to turn students away. I don't have enough time to teach them all.

I am trying to practice a lot these days. So much to practice: classical saxophone,jazz saxophone,flute and clarinet.

If that's what it takes to keep me working, then I'll do it.

I was talking with Dale the other day and realized that one thing I really regret is that I have been able to have any teaching or instructional responsibilties at all here at UMD. I think that this is greatly overlooked in the performance area. I don't know any very many people that aren't going to teach along with perform that get advanced degrees in music, don't MM and DMA just set you up for teaching in university settings anyway?

I am glad for people like Dale Underwood, Ed Walters and Leigh Pilzer. I didn't know much about Leigh or Ed, and didn't know a lot about Dale until I got here, and I realized that these three are great assests to UMD. Dale Underwood needs a saxophone TA, though, that's BS that he doesn't have a TA. Dale has produced some really good students, and the saxophone studio deserves more recognition than it gest.