Re: Has the recession hit guitar departments or Childbloom?

"ktaylor" <childbloom@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jan 17, 7:08 pm, "Steve Freides" <st...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I notice nothing different here at all. I still am teaching as many
students as I can handle.

-S-

Sreve,

What part of the country are you in and where do you teach?

Kevin T.
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I live in Ridgewood, NJ. It's about 10 miles from the George Washington
Bridge into NYC, and also close to Rockland County, NY - we always used
to ride our bikes to places like Piermont and Nyack, NY. I teach from
my living room. It's mostly guitar and mostly beginners, all
styles/types, and also some electric and upright bass - at the moment I
have one upright bass student, no electric bass, and two students
studying classical guitar, and the rest - I think I have 17 students
now - play electric or acoustic steel-string guitar. It's also mostly
kids but I do have few adults.

I also teach at the Bergen Community College but at the moment I have
declined their invitation to teach guitar there, although I've taught
French Horn for one semester and will start teaching private piano
during the upcoming Spring semester. I did play a few cg numbers in a
faculty recital a couple of years ago. I sing, too. I get called on to
sing Ives, 12-tone student compositions, and the like because, I think,
no one else can. :) I was a voice performance major in undergraduate
school, switching to that after starting majoring in classical guitar,
and I've got perfect pitch which is very handy when it comes to singing
Ives.

[MiddleAgedSandwichGenerationParentRamble]

I still think, regularly, about getting involved in your program, and I
certainly have it on my list to visit Austin and at least come by and
say hello, Kevin. Right now life is just too busy, and flying to
unpredictable, for us to even consider taking a vacation that involves
an airplane. The kids are involved in so many things that a vacation
for us is usually driving 2 hours to Pennsylvania to see my wife's
parents and staying in a hotel with an indoor pool. Because I teach
college, my wife teaches at a private middle school, the kids go to the
public schools here, and my oldest is in Mannes' Preparatory program
(just got "promoted" to playing first trumpet for the next orchestra
concert, pretty good for a 10th-grader), we're up to 4 different
vacation schedules to coordinate, and even summers don't work because I
teach summer school (need the money) and when that ends, it's time for
my oldest son's annual
3-weeks-of-indentured-servitude-to-the-high-school-soccer-program (in
addition to music, he's a great soccer player and hope to be on the
varsity team next year), and then it's Labor Day and it all starts up
again.

<sigh>. We're off to hear the County Band concert this afternoon, and
taking my 84-year-old mother, who has a lot of short-term memory loss
and repeats herself, repeats herself, repeats herself, repeats herself a
lot. My father can't come to hear his oldest grandson play because the
football playoffs are on TV and involve the Eagles - he lived in
Philadelphia until he and my mother moved to an apartment near our house
4 years ago.

How's the weather in Austin? It snowed here a little overnight - been
snowing every few days, it seems, although fortunately only a little at
a time.

I wear size 8 shoes - I think I've just spelled out every other fact of
my life, might as well include shoe size, I figure.

[/MiddleAgedSandwichGenerationParentRamble]

-S-


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