Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2017-12-27 01:50
Seabreeze: Thanks, as always, for the elegant reply, and names/links. I've gone out and listened to a few pieces since you posted. Great stuff!
David: I think I might have met Jeff once...very briefly...when he had come home for a quick visit. He was out making his own way in the world at the time. Ralph was very proud of Jeff, though, and spoke of him often during our lessons. If memory serves correctly, Jeff had just won the audition for the President's Own. (Gosh, this brings back a lot of great memories!)
John: Haha! The chicken thing! I never actually got to hear him do it. However, my very non-musical sibling had to take music appreciation, and Ralph did it there...the kids loved it in that class. The Dr. of bassoon would hook up a balloon to his instrument, and make it puff up as he played some piece or another. I don't know what was in the water back then - but I know my sibling came out of the class being able to hear stuff in classical music that even I hadn't been attuned to before, and could pick out any instrument's sound in an orchestra..so, regardless of the gimmickry of demonstrating the instruments - the rest of the "instruction" must have been pretty substantial. That was decades ago, and my sibling still includes a healthy dose of classical music in an otherwise death-metal rotation. Thanks for sharing your experience with Ralph...what a hoot.
Thanks for the references...it's cool to see the variety of answers emerging.
Fuzzy
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