Clarion Clarity

[geminiwench]

I was ever so grateful the Thanksgiving holiday week.

It was one of the most FULFILLING weeks
I've had in a memorably-long time.

Monday/Tuesday before
was Fancy Christmas Concert® series
which I had been arranging for 14 months.

I'm proud despite work being 50/50 about it.
But work is sorta 50/50 about most things
so it goes.

[Want to learn more about the concert?]They were so

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[taz_39]

Oooh a female trombonist, wonder if I would know her. There are so few. I’ve met female hornists much more frequently. More than all that, I hope they were professional and good musicians to work with.

[geminiwench]

They were all DREAMBOATS.
I'll link you to the finished/produced performance video once it airs.

I expect females on the French Horn, and Flautists and such... but the trombone/trumpet seems much more male-dominated. My niece is taking up the sax and LOVES it had the same experience my female friend had in band 35 years ago of the band teacher going, "Are you SURE you don't want to play clarinet?? Why don't you play the clarinet?!" while encouraging boys toward the sax and away from the clarinet.

So weird to think this kind of passive sexism is still so.... um... "natural" for so many accidental misogynists people.

[taz_39]

Very cool, thank you

[geminiwench]

I was impressed by a female conductor and female trombonist in such a small group. Both of those seem so traditionally male-dominated but without much logical reasoning

[taz_39]

Well, just like how little boys were punished for playing with dolls, or liking pink. There are things considered "socially acceptable" that we are "supposed" to adhere to; idiotic dance steps to "fit in" to someone's society. It's all meant to control, which was fine for an uneducated population...but now that information is instant an accessible, we can all see what's happening, and those systems are being rejected.

[geminiwench]

That is one thing that the internet has helped break down in the English speaking world at least (which is most of my online experience) where culture is now truly identified for what it is (it only took 100 years for us to learn this... which I guess is pretty fast over all!) and that it is a social construct full of rules/boundaries that are not so much about reality,... but more about the reality that is WANTED.

Young people are now growing up knowing this... and actively creating the reality they want by constructing/applying the idea of culture ACTIVELY in their own lives, which is AWESOME because... they are making it the way they want it rather than feeling bound by the traditional nonsense of the past... even better than their parents or grandparents were able to do!