Klarinet Archive - Posting 000467.txt from 1999/02

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Celebration
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:21:58 -0500

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.06
> Subj: [kl] Celebration

> In case you are in the vicinity of Evansville, Indiana today, stop by and
> join the party I'm having! Today is the 50th anniversary of the day I got
> my first musical instrument (a clarinet) and had my first band class.
>
> It was at West Side Elementary School in Hopkinsville, Kentucky where this
> singular event occurred, one which obviously was a highlight of my life.
> My instrument was a Pan-American ebonite clarinet. I have never forgotten
> the emotions I experienced when I first viewed those beautiful, shiny
> nickel-plated keys and that gleaming black clarinet juxtaposed against the
> red fake-plush lining of the case. I think my eyes glazed over and I saw
> the gates of heaven open and heard angels singing! We used the "Easy
> Steps to the Band" method book, and the first note I ever played was a
> written F on the first space of the treble clef (thumb only - see, I still
> haven't forgotten the fingering!). From that point on, music and I were
> inseparable companions.
>
> Very fortunately for me, I'm still as enthusiastic about music today as I
> was 50 years ago. And, I'm already planning the party I'm going to have
> on the 100th anniversary of that occasion! ;-)
>
> Thanks for allowing me a personal reminiscence.

No Ed. Thank you for sharing this wonderful reminiscence with us
and reminding us all how wonderful that precious first day was. Only
in retrospect do the reed problems and squeaking fade into
irrelevance, and the good memories come out.

>
> Ed Lacy
> *****************************************************************
> Dr. Edwin Lacy University of Evansville
> Professor of Music 1800 Lincoln Avenue
> Evansville, IN 47722
> el2@-----.edu (812)479-2754
> *****************************************************************
>
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