Klarinet Archive - Posting 000165.txt from 1998/03

From: "Scott Morrow" <sdm@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Marching Band
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 17:18:53 -0500

Well, I just missed that! I was also an undergrad at Drexel, but that
requirement was long gone (i'd heard about it from the band director,
though!) I DID get a chance to play in the armory once: "wonderful"
acoustics - it literally took the sound twenty seconds to bounce back to
you!
When were YOU there?
-Scott

Scott D. Morrow
DNA Synthesis Core Facility
Department of Biochemistry
The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
Baltimore, MD 21205
(410) 955-3631
-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Elias <elias@-----.net>
Cc: klarinet@-----.us>
Date: Tuesday, March 03, 1998 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: Marching Band

>
>
>Scott Morrow wrote:
>
>> I think you're confusing marching band with ROTC. Don't worry, lots
of
>> people do! I mean, they're both large groups of people who march around
in
>> funny costumes. The major difference is that, in ROTC, they're carrying
>> weapons instead of instruments (although some people DO consider the
>> glockenspiel a weapon).
>
>When I was an undergrad at Drexel, all the guys -- about 95% of the student
body
>-- were drafted into ROTC (pronounced ROT-see). I think the school got a
bounty
>for the number of bodies they could stuff into ill-fitting uniforms. On
>Thursdays the campus was a sea of green. Those of us who were musicians,
>however, were the envy of the "corps" because while they were slogging
around on
>a cold, muddy football field, we were rehearsing in a nice, warm, dry
>auditorium. Before football season we learned one drill and used it (with
minor
>variations) for each game. When the school dropped football, the ROTC band
>became exclusively a concert band. Not the greatest musical experience, but
it
>kept me from toting a rifle!
>
>Stan Elias
>