Klarinet Archive - Posting 000163.txt from 2003/04

From: "Rebecca Brennan" <rjbrennan1221@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Oops!!
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:31:40 -0400

Were those bands good then? I know GW is like the best in the state and
there is this guy, Chris, from South Charleston, that I would have loved to
beat at anything but he is graduating this year. He made all-state on the Bb
clarinet, alto clarinet, bassoon, alto sax, and god knows what else! He
chose to play alto sax this year. Last year he was first chair bassoon and
the year before he was 1st chair alto clarinet.

Logan has about killed me but it is really cool to know that wonderful
people like Larry Combs came from WV. Did he and/or Ray make all-state here?
How high were they if they did?

Maybe there is hope for me. Maybe I will be the star performer at Clarinet
Fest one day:) Maybe everyone will know my name and people will wish they
were me and maybe even stalk me! How honorable! I wish i was cool enough to
be stalked. Of course I would just want it to be an obsessor, not a psycho
out to kill me though I am sure people will want to because of raging
jelousy because I shall be so great. Maybe in a parallel universe...

>From: "Deej" <deej.wv@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: RE: [kl] Oops!!
>Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 22:36:33 -0500
>
>Ray and my sister were friendly competitors in All-County and All-State
>Bands here back in the late seventies and early eighties. He and I played
>in
>a couple of clarinet groups and in a community band in Chas., and I had him
>as a student at a couple of summer music camps where I attended college, so
>I guess I've known him since around 1975. I watched him grow as a young
>man
>and as a musician, and he's a class act...and has the driest yet most
>wonderful sense of humor you can find. He's an excellent teacher, and if
>you'd have opportunity to meet and/or study with him, I'd recommend it
>highly.
>
>And in case you didn't know, the principal clarinet of the Chicago Symphony
>also came out of the school system here...Larry Combs attended South
>Charleston junior and high schools here in the Charleston area, so we've
>given a couple of goo gifts to the clarinet world.
>
>As for the area you're in and school music, WV in general is suffering the
>same plight, but Logan and Mingo counties are among the list of
>hardest-hit.
>Hang in there, keep up your study and playing, and overcome your
>surroundings there.
>

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