Klarinet Archive - Posting 000942.txt from 2004/07

From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] ClarinetFest 2004
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:22:59 -0400

Sue Raycraft wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am home from ClarinetFest and want to tell a little about my
> experiences there, however on Sunday afternoon following a nice
> lunch with Nancy, Lelia, and Audrey, I threw my back out lifting
> my suitcase and I am walking around like a 95-year-old woman
> at the moment. Actually I am spending more time *crawling* around
> on the floor, since that is easier!

Bummer about the back. I've had back trouble since I was 29. For the
operaphiles among you...at it's worst, a throw-out back makes me look
like I could play Rigoletto without body makeup. Medication takes 20
points off my IQ, but chiropractry has helped. Sue, that'll learn you
not to carry a contrabass clarinet in one hand and three suitcases in
the other:-).

> I did have a wonderful time and enjoyed meeting Mark Charette
> especially. He is a great guy and any of you who have not met him
> in person are really missing out.

Didn't you tell me Mark's the guy who put on the Groucho Marx glasses
and mustache to travel incognito?

> I also very much enjoyed spending time with Kelly Abraham, Tim Parks,
> Rebecca Brennan, and of course Nancy, Audrey and Lelia. Also talked
> with Jim Lytthans briefly, and he even graciously posed for a picture.

I still owe you a reply to a note, Kelly, and as for the rest...well, I
can't even use my imagination anymore.

> Anyway, I have already started a kitty for my ClarinetFest 2007 fund.
> I doubt I will make it to Japan in 2005 or Atlanta in 2006. But Vancouver
> BC is within driving distance (I am in Oregon) and I intend to be there.
> Hope some of you west coast people who did not make it out to
> College Park will be able to make the trip to Vancouver as I am looking
> forward to meeting some of you!

I guess these trips cost somebody some serious money no matter where
they're held. Ostend, Belgium a few years back, right? N'awleans? If
I start rowing now I might make Tokyo, but I gather everything in Japan
is so expensive that the Japanese come here for the good prices. I'm
holding out for New York. I guess that won't happen until after the
Republicans clean up the beer spills and throw out the escorts that
Cheney hired.

> More later, I gotta dose up with ibuprofen and go lie down somewhere.....
>
> ~OUCH~

Oh God, but I completely empathize. Back trouble is something that gets
slower to heal as you get older. When you hit 30, Susie, you'll really
start to feel it....

Ken
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Kenneth Wolman
Proposal Development Department
Room SW334
Sarnoff Corporation
609-734-2538

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