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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…
Julie A. Linder 