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Re: Were you able to keep playing?...

Author: Wicked Good ★2017
Date: 2014-07-30 03:23

There has to be something about town bands in New England.

I used to play principal with a town band in northern Massachusetts. A few years ago, on a particularly hot and humid evening, the (quite elderly) conductor fell victim to heat exhaustion mid-piece. He lost his balance on the podium, and tumbled head-first into the clarinet section (and broke my old reliable Knox Unistand).

We did not play through. There was just too much commotion, including paramedics at the scene. One of the trumpet players finished the concert conducting, including an immediate re-do of the piece in which the conductor fell ill.

The poor guy eventually was okay, and was able to resume his conducting duties the following week.

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