holst and furret walk enthusiast

when i was 8 i had a very intimidating russian woman as a music teacher- she was both my opera instructor and piano teacher. about a month into piano, she sat me down and said to my mother and i "this child- very beautiful voice, good for singing. i will not allow this child to continue piano. god did not want this child to play an instrument. he told me this in dreams. that is all."

If you play an instrument, do you sometimes let other people who don't play it try it?

Can you play an instrument?

Have you ever played the oboe ?

have you been to a live classical music concert before?

One of my favorite songs is Maurice Ravel's Bolero, but as the tune is very consistent for the entire more than 10 minutes piece, I am wondering how much fun it is for the musicians to play it. Especially the drums, they just do the same thing over and over again. I am not a musician so I can't image, does it get boring after a while or are you all swept up by the music as much as the audience, or even more?

Michael Jackson - Beat it

How do I get better at/learn to sight read? Right now, I'm only really memorizing the pattern/how my hands and fingers are supposed to go rather than actually like reading, if that makes sense. Is it a bad idea to write down what the notes are below as practice, or would that become too much of a crutch or something? (If it helps to know, I'm learning clarinet).

Welcome to the clarinet family!! I definitely wouldn’t recommend writing in the note names. If you need practice with reading notes, here’s a great website to practice: