Klarinet Archive - Posting 000160.txt from 2001/10

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] coincidence
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 19:33:23 -0400

At 11:15 PM 10/05/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Since our discussions here on "klarinet" tend to wander rather far afield
>at times, I'll tell what I think is an interesting story about some of the
>people who were on that tour.

{snip}

>After finding her way back to her group, she forgot about the incident
>entirely until one point early in the year 1964, a few months after the
>assassination of President Kennedy. She was visited at that time by
>agents of the FBI, who had many questions for her about the incident in
>Russia several years previously. It turns out that the man who offered to
>help her was Lee Harvey Oswald. She still doesn't know to this day how
>they ever were able to find her.

Ed -

I would like to hear more from you about anything you know about that
tour. It is indeed a fascinating story. I really enjoy hearing stuff like
this - as I was so taken with the Russian tour band and what they accomplished!

I had dinner with Revelli in 1985 - he, his wife Mary, my wife Sara, and I
all sat at a nice restaurant with Revelli telling me story after
story. His knowledge was incredible - and his memory was crystal clear -
amazing for a man who was closing in on 90 years old. One thing he
remembered was that some of the students got down on their hands and knees
and kissed the ground in New York when they arrived back in the USA. On
tour, Catholics, Christians, and any other practicing religious groups had
to meet in secret to worship. Revelli allowed it - but he was careful not
to let it be known. He said that was one of the most difficult things
about traveling around the, then, Soviet Union. But the positives were as
striking to him as the negatives. The people went absolutely nuts over the
band and the way they played, and the Soviet people were warm, caring, and
generous. When the governments don't get in the way, it is amazing how
people can care for each other.

If you don't have the recordings of this band, or if you have never heard
them - you absolutely have a treat in store for you. Write me off list if
you are interested.

On a separate note - I have been very involved in what our country is doing
regarding the terrorist attacks in New York, and I am hoping our military
strikes today spared innocent lives. I pray for any and all innocent
middle easterners..............

Best wishes,
Roger Garrett

Clarinet Professor
Director, Symphonic Winds
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me,
this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very
best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until
the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't
amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels swearing I
was right would make no difference."
-Abraham Lincoln

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