Klarinet Archive - Posting 000503.txt from 1998/01

From: Melissa Norman <scouts-own@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Eb clarinet busker
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 12:21:27 -0500

What does busking mean?? If it means playing...why is it so amazing to see a
blind woman playing? There have been composers and musicians who are blind ,
deaf, and/or both.......

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