Klarinet Archive - Posting 000702.txt from 1997/05

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: Down one, how many more to go?
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 10:36:22 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.51
> Subj: Down one, how many more to go?

> Yo Rafe, Fred! We're down one. 596 to go.
>
> This is what makes this list so good. Only the strong survive!
>
> You sissies who can't stand the heat won't survive one month as a
> professional musician anyhow. My ex-teacher, now a first chair at a symphony
> orchestra has had her reed broken during rehearsal break. Being spoken to
> rudely hardly qualifies as a rough ride! Music is tough business. Somebody
> has to weed the winnow from the chafe.
>
You are unclear here. Are you suggesting that someone broke her reed
deliberately in order to injure her, or was it possibly an accident
that occurred?

>
>
> SNIP
> << ...Don't quit
> the list Kenneth. That WOULD be dumb. There's more here than this
> rather petty display of human frailty that has distracted us somewhat
> from our passion, the clarinet.
>
> Dick Walters
> >>
>
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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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