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Author: Alyra
Date: 2003-12-28 14:25
When I was 15/16, I was in a jazz group on clarinet and being taught by an American trumpet player who was absolutely fantastic. Taking up clarinet again recently, I was talking to a friend of mine who plays trombone and is heavily into jazz - and he wanted to know what this teacher's name was. I tried to remember in vain but to no avail - but found a sheet of music from back then with the society's stamp on it - looked it up - and wham bang, it all came back to me. My teacher was Gil Askey.
And what a modest man he was - he never told us just how famed he was. I feel so darn honoured to have been taught by him! Amazing what you don't realise when you're younger!
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-12-28 17:53
Yes, and as they say, "It's amazing how much your parents learn as you get older."
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2003-12-28 20:03
Something I posted here almost a year ago:
"I went to college in little old Kingsville, Texas, where I majored in music for a year and didn't take it very seriously. I stayed with private lessons for awhile after I changed my major, but my heart belonged to my new major (journalism). Anyway, my teacher told me I should come to a master class being given on a particular Saturday. I was 20, had a new girlfriend, and just couldn't bear the thought of tearing myself away from her to hear some guy I'd never heard of named Stanley Hasty talk about the clarinet. But I went, and I don't remember a thing (a slam against idiot ME and not Mr. Hasty).
Man, do I wish I didn't have my head so far up my backside in those days. I might've learned something.
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
- Pope John Paul II
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Author: Fred
Date: 2003-12-28 22:00
There was a small music shop owner that sold my parents my first clarinet. I even had a chance to take lessons from him, but he was mainly a saxophone player . . . so I took from my band director (a trumpet player) instead. Besides . . . who'd want to take from a guy named Santy Runyon anyway?
What a squandered opportunity!
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Author: Brenda
Date: 2003-12-29 02:21
Those of us in our Clarinet Choir felt privileged to have been invited to a master class and decided to travel together that afternoon, ignoring families and jobs. We were treated to a master class by Sabina Meyer.
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