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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000020.txt from 2007/10
From: Barbara Trautwein <mzeztee@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Far away places or More e mails about myself
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:17:08 -0400
Harold should know that there is NO MORE Savannah Symphony !! But I
played 1st oboe there from 1974-1977 and I have lots of stories. . . ..
2 cents
B
HAROLD wrote:
> David Metzer:Can't you write anything else but about yourself?No regards
>
> Reply:Maybe ...I should write about ...David Metzger?
>
>
> Fortaleza,nothern Brazil--Life brings me to another far off,exotic
> place with among the loveliest beaches in the world and temperature
> which allows me to take a swim at 10pm and eat some of the best
> lobster in the world.And I muse: this would be a great place to play
> first oboe or bassoon in the orchestra?
> Fortaleza!!!???
> And I think to myself(who else?) ,why do all the rats who play double
> reeds want to compete vs. each other for jobs in the so-called "big
> "places when such new and romantic places around the world like
> Fortaleza search for musicians?
> Which recalls my first job offer ---Savannah,Georgia.
> In any case,it is the late 60s (my gosh!) and fresh punk oboist from
> New York City arrives in the one-time part of the Confederate
> Flag,Savannah ,Ga. and actually passes the audition for his first job
> as principal .He is also offered a chance to play in the woodwind
> quintet and moreover to supplement his 100 dollar a week salary for 26
> weeks,as a cub reporter for the local rag.(Think of all the scandals
> to be researched ,straight out of Tennessee Williams'plays!)
> He walks about the whole town in about 15 minutes(1968),sees one
> White Castle open, the rest of the streets rolled up after 6pm and his
> plane lands in the Big Apple and he returns to thoity thoid street the
> chosen first oboist for the Savannah Symphony has made his final
> decision:Savannah is too small a town for him.....Results :He ends up
> playing in the South African Broadcasting Orchestra in Johannesburg
> during apartheid.
> Query :where would he be today if he had taken the job(living with the
> quote girl in Atlanta?)
> Moral of this story about me,me,me: there's plenty of life in other
> parts of the planet,take the job in some far off place,make friends,
> romance someone,practice hard and enjoy the place for what it is.
> Amen!
>
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