Hi, Richard!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

RW>  I haven't read a piece of sheet music of any kind now
RW>  since the '80's  and then it was part of the process
RW>  of my wife and I copping something from library of
RW>  congress braille music collection to our own, which
RW>  mean a hand transcription.  I usually got to do the
RW>  dictation, wife do the transcription part iirc.


          Thanks for the insight!  It hadn't occurred to me that music
could be written in Braille... but why not??  Years ago there was a gal in
our community band who recorded the music, then took it home &
memorized it.  I am aware that (with the exception of classicists, who seem
to think the highest accolade they can give a student is "s/he copied
it perfectly") others may not learn the same way.  As it happens our
conductor likes to experiment from time to time.  Folks such as yours truly
who can read the music & watch the conductor simultaneously are quite
comfortable with his modus operandi.  It didn't work for her, though,
because she was blind.  If I'm expected to memorize or play by ear or copy
what somebody else has done, I feel like a fish out of water.  She probably
did too.

          Now you've got me wondering about that C/W gig in Lethbridge....  ;-)




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