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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000023.txt from 2007/10

From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Far away places or More e mails about myself
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:39:07 -0400

Are there places in the world with a more oppressive climate than Savannah,
Atlanta, or Charleston SC? Are there oboists there?
Herb

On 10/3/07 8:17 AM, "Barbara Trautwein" <mzeztee@-----.edu> wrote:

> 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
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> B
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> HAROLD wrote:
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>> 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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