Klarinet Archive - Posting 001052.txt from 2000/01

From: Nancy Buckman <znjb@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Why?
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 14:36:47 -0500

Sorry about the missed reply. I accidently hit the wrong key.

>
>So I was kind of wondering if anyone else had been struck the same kind of
>way, and who did it to you.
>
>--Bryan

When I was 10, I begged my parents for a piano so I could take lessons.
They bought it and I got my lessons. When I was 12, my general music
teacher, Ruth Thomas, brought in her cello for one of my seventh grade music
classes. She played with the newly formed Annapolis Symphony and wanted to
enlighten her students about music and the different instruments in the
symphony orchestra. She played for us and I was quite impressed. Sometime
later in the school year, she arranged for our class to hear the Baltimore
Symphony in their home concert hall, which at the time was the Lyric
Theatre. They played Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony". and Mendelssohn's
"Fingal's Cave". I absolutely loved it.

My younger brother had tried clarinet lessons in the school band and didn't
like it, so he quit playing. I asked him if I could play his clarinet and
he gave it to me. He told me to keep it - that he wanted nothing to do with
it. Well, not only did I learn to play the clarinet, I learned to play
just about everything else, too. I am not virtuosic by any means, but I play
well enough on most anything that I could sit anywhere in a community group
and play second or third parts comfortably. I play clarinet, flute, sax and
oboe well enough to sit anywhere but solo. I've enjoyed every minute and
will be indebted to Ruth Thomas (who passed away two summers ago) forever.

Nancy

Nancy E. Buckman
Pasadena, Maryland USA
znjb@-----.net

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