by Forrest Clark Forrest Clark has performed with the Utah Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He has recorded with Leopold Stowkowski, Igor Stravinsky and Bruno Walter among others, and is the author of the Encyclopedia for Snare Drum. Formerly percussion instructor at the Music Academy of the West at Santa Barbara, California, Mr. Clark presently teaches at the California State University in Irvine.Our current spectrum of musical instrument pedagogy seems to provide a wide array of divergent opinions, theories, and techniques for training and performance. From my viewpoint as a performer and teacher, I consider this to be healthy.There is one type of teaching philosophy which I do not consider to be quite so beneficial. This is represented by the teacher who claims that his way is “the right way” and at the same time is unable to offer any adequate, logical proof or demonstration […]

July 1977 Issue