Klarinet Archive - Posting 000490.txt from 1998/01

From: Dee Hays <deerich@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Eb clarinet busker
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:09:59 -0500

Peter Stoll wrote:

> I was recently in Montreal, and saw an amazing sight; a blind woman
> sitting on the street next to her big black Labrador, busking with a
> plastic Eb! The wailing sound (kind of Balkan folk-music like) was quite
> haunting. I tipped her a bit and wanted to say hello, but she looked so
> much in her own world I thought it best to just listen. Great moment.
>
> Peter Stoll
> Instructor of Clarinet and Chamber Music
> University of Toronto

Time for me to receive some enlightenment. What is busking??

Dee Hays
deerich@-----.net
Canton, SD