Klarinet Archive - Posting 000567.txt from 1998/10

From: pollyg@-----. Gulakowski)
Subj: Re: [kl] I'm baaack!!!
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 21:22:21 -0400

Marvelous description (the engine thing)! I'm going to borrow it for my
next defense discourse, okay?

Paulette
Live a life of EXCLAMATION not explanation!
Old clarinetists never die, they just get reed-ic-u-lous!
{'!'}?

On Tue, 13 Oct 1998 20:29:22 -0400 "line ringuette" <lringuet@-----.net>
writes:
>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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