Klarinet Archive - Posting 000558.txt from 1998/10

From: "line ringuette" <lringuet@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] I'm baaack!!!
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 20:29:22 -0400

Hi there everyone!

I'm now back home and have returned to the list, safe and sound after my
first flight! I survived, yippee!!!

While in Alabama, I was treated to my first big college football game --and
it was the homecoming game, at that!! Man, football would be an
interesting societal event to dissect in clinical terms! It was my first
football game ever; I must say I felt like a Canadian spy, peering into a
world I knew very little about.
{just to let you know how little I knew about the whole show; when they
announced that the queen was going to come out onto the field, I
immediately thought of the Queen Mum and wondered what on earth SHE could
be doing in Alabama! My thinking was quickly corrected by the cute native
Alabaman i was with, and now I know about the whole Homecoming queen thing
(egads!)}...

It was great fun, and yes I was very impressed with the marching bands (one
was the million dollar band from U of A, the other one from mississippi).
Now, I'm not writing this to stir up ANYTHING about the marching band
issue, but just to say that I was absolutely awestruck by the sheer power
that can be produced by winds/brass/perc. It was very very interesting, I
must say I found myself laughing with excitement when I saw a whole row of
sousaphones playing and dancing around in the stands as they did! I've
never seen marching bands do what they do during a game; the whole drum
major thing, megaphones, uniforms, choreography, holy cow!!! It really is
like a small engine, churning away within the giant engine that is the
game!

Well, I just had to share my new found enlightenment
:)
Line Ringuette

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