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Radical showing up.
I just left a 5 hour zoom meeting. In that meeting, I experienced many ups and downs. I was nervous to speak, then I finally spoke, then I wondered if I spoke too much, then I didn’t speak for fear others had not spoken. In the course of today’s meeting, I was shown a lot…
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Addressing clarinet pedagogy in the interview*
For the interviewer asking a potential candidate about clarinet pedagogy looking to fill a knowledge gap in your program, it’s important you clarify the answers you’re searching for ahead of time. For the interviewee, it’s important to find out what classes you’d be teaching within that program if you were hired and if it is…
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Pervasive Misinformation (Lies My Teacher Told Me)
One of the best things about getting married was the day we unpacked our books onto a single shared bookshelf. We didn’t have a single book in common, which depending on how you look at things bodes well, or is a bad omen. One of my husband’s books catches my eye every week as I…
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Clarinet basics: pinkies
We Need to Talk About Clarinet Scale Fingerings (specifically pinkies) By Julie Linder-Gaulin Director, Clarinet Pro Workshops There are some basic rules we should follow when choosing fingerings in our music. Scales are the first opportunity we have to introduce students to the concepts that they’ll use for this later on. It’s a mistake to…
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Shortcuts to writing a good cover letter.
6 years ago, in my mid-20’s, I was unemployed in one of the most competitive job markets in the nation. I had one marketable area of expertise: clarinet. Let me tell you, that is a pretty niche market in Austin, TX (or anywhere). I had an injury and couldn’t even play. But I had a…
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The women who inspire me
“Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady.” – Nora Ephron Many women are taking a moment to pay homage to the indelible Nora Ephron after her death this week. From Facebook statuses to Lena Dunham in the New Yorker, women are writing to recognize…
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4 year-olds, Instrument Drives, & Double Lipped Embouchure
If you don’t know what double lip embouchure is, here you go. When I first heard about double lip from Tom Ridenour in Dallas, I thought he was insane (what can I say? I was 19 and didn’t know anything). But years later I was sitting across the dinner table from Ricardo Morales, sharing a…
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Life after injury
For a long time I avoided serious playing for the same reason I avoid speaking Spanish now. I used to be fairly fluent. I read Cien años de soledad. After a summer in interior Mexico words rolled right off my tongue. It was a source of pride. Now when I speak, it’s as if I have…
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Music Ed and SXSW – Musicians of Lucero/Chuck Ragan Cedar Street Showcase
SXSW is obviously one of my favorite holidays. Not your average music festival – it completely inhabits every nook and cranny of the city I love for 4 straight days. I love the imperfection of it, from pop up shows with terrible sound to sweat-box venues where the musicians and fans alike leave completely soaked…
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Julie A. Linder 