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Nothing quite beats dressing in authentic German garb and performing highly choreographed routines in the Orlando sweltering summertime heat while wearing a heat attracting tuba and wooden clog type shoes and doing the chicken dance 6 sets a day, talk about easy money, lol!!!
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I've always wondered how the motions people make with instruments enhance the music. Then I remembered freshman year at music school. We had a class called movement. This was in the 1980s, so low brass players weren't yet expected to be effeminate. Someone played waltzes on the piano and we all pranced around like fairies. This was a mandatory class we got grades for. Twice a week on a big stage, freedancing to random music.

I suppose its the same thing as moving in your chair while you play. Its supposed to be expressive, although I m still unsure what it expresses.
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How is "moving to music" a "nonsense curricula"?

It was good enough for Orff, and elementary music teachers teach in that style all over the place.
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anonymous4 wrote:How is "moving to music" a "nonsense curricula"?

It was good enough for Orff, and elementary music teachers teach in that style all over the place.
Did you just enter into evidence, that the academic acceptance of "nonsense curricula" is proof that "nonsense curricula" does not exist??

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I was thinking Super Glue for the fingers and Gorilla Tape on the mouth might help keep things in place while you move to the music.
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Moving to music has it's time and place, and there are times not to move. If I went to an orchestra or concert band concert and saw the tubist swaying back and forth it would be distracting to me, if I'm watching a Marching band and the Sousaphones are moving together in choreographed moves that's adds to the show. Remember the big joke about Jerry Garcia "I went to a Dead Concert, and Jerry Moved"? It was unusual in a Rock band setting for someone not to move, and when a performer didn't it was considered a joke. It's really all situational, and what the expectations are for that situation.
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I play a different type of music than most of y’all.
Audience members are generally there to dance. In that setting, if it looks like we’re having a good time on stage, that helps the audience have a good time.
Since I’m standing up anyway (I’m a sousaphonist), might as well dance!
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Zydeco changes everything!!

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Just think, you could be as athletic as the FAMU tuba section

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