Klarinet Archive - Posting 000012.txt from 2008/01

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] A trip to the past
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:08:22 -0500

Dan Leeson wrote,
>At the party was Frances Blaisdell, well into her 90s and still
>teaching flute at Stanford University. Although frail and having
>difficulty seeing, she still has a razor sharp mind and a quick wit.
>
>But I bring her name up because she is the wife, now widow, of one
>of the great clarinetists of two generations ago, Alex Williams. I knew
>Alex both because we lived in the same general area of New Jersey's
>Bergen county.
[snip]
>So I was sitting next to Frances and she began telling me many of
>the stories of the players that both she and her husband had known
>and played with in New York.

Thanks, Dan--great tales to tell, and New Year's is a fine time to tell
them. I especially like the one about how she auditioned her way past the
oinkety-oinks at a music school.

Lelia Loban
P. S. My main reminiscence about the year 2007 is: Nah nah, hey hey, kiss it
goodbye--and good riddance! May 2008 bring good reeds, no cracks, lots of
well-played music and a Democrat in the White Hou

P. Sssssssssssssssss, not that political rant again. Just stop, all right?
(I'm making my stupid pet human type this. Lelia thinks she fell asleep at
the computer while I borrow her squishy wet primate brain for a moment or
two.) May 2008 bring some silence around here, and especially silence from
the evil screech-sticks, and let's not have any more of them coming in here,
either! Not with Lelia and not with those cl*r*n*t-enabling so-called
friends of hers, either! A cat that's nearly 20 years old (she said I was
21 once but I'm hissing well not!) and supervising her pet humans diligently
every day deserves a little bit of consideration, don't you think?

Sssssst!
Shadow Cat

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