HEllo Ardith,   
      
   On Tue 2038-Nov-23 20:46, Ardith Hinton (1:153/716) wrote to Richard Webb:   
      
   RW>    NOw I wish I could find a way to convince Kathy   
   RW>  to cease, but as I say, the rOttie loves it.   
      
      
   AH>             Dallas & I once shared our home with an English bulldog   
   AH> who clearly enjoyed a recording in which Moe Koffman plays Bach with   
   AH> jazz percussion as his accompaniment.  It was also one of our   
   AH> favourites.  But I must add that bulldog hair is like Xmas tree   
   AH> needles & confetti... it works its way into the darndest places.    
   AH> I'm still trying to extricate her hair from the speaker cloth....    
   AH> ;-)    
      
   YEah dog hair does that, gets everywhere.  I think I've   
   heard that one too, can't remember who did it, but a friend   
   played it for me once.  RAther interesting.   
      
      
   RW>  SHe'd be belting it out in church and I'd tell her that   
   RW>  I understand the "make a joyful noise unto the lord ... "   
   RW>  part, but maybe there are exceptions.   
      
      
   AH>             I imagine God would understand her intent even if she   
   AH> can't carry a tune in a bucket... however, I can also relate to such   
   AH> things from a musician's viewpoint!  Recently the three of us went   
   AH> to a gathering, for example, in which several of the participants   
   AH> were young adults with Down's syndrome.  One of the mothers   
   AH> suggested we sing Happy Birthday to So-and-So but gave no indication   
   AH> of which key she had in mind.  As a former band teacher, I can sing   
   AH> along with the trombones or whatever & cut through to the back row   
   AH> if necessary.  With a group directed by somebody else, and   
   AH> attempting to sing in twelve different keys, I'm quite out of my   
   AH> depth.  OTOH, the love I felt in that room was awesome....  :-)    
      
   I usually don't even try, I just mouth the words, and am gld it's jst a short   
   stanza.  Poor Kathy would need more than a   
   bucket to carry a tune though, a tank truck maybe.   
      
   A few years ago I attended a concert, high school choir,   
   junior high band and some solo vocalists.  My daughter was   
   singing with the high school chorus.  JH band started to   
   play and I left, nobody must have gone anywhere near a   
   concert b-flat standard before taking the stage.  Next day I confronted jh   
   band director and asked him why he'd allow   
   those kids to embarrass themselves in that way.   
   I told him he should be ashamed of himself.   
      
   Reminds me of a story, my own jh band days.  GUy sitting   
   next to me in the trumpet section used to reach out an nudge me with his foot   
   when conductor cut of a formatta (spelling) and we performed concerts in the   
   jh gymnasium, audience in   
   the bleachers.   
      
   Band director's wife was on an upper tier and didn't relate   
   the cut off signals with my neighbor nudging me with his   
   left foot.  sO she reports my neighbor "harassing" me during the concert.    
   Band director shouldn't have been teaching   
   kids anyway, he was a true musician's musician type.   
      
   NExt day my neighbor goes in for his trumpet lesson and   
   teacher unloads on him.  BD is a big loud guy and does the   
   red faced rage bit quite well.  sO, my friend returns to   
   science class after his lesson begging me to go explain our   
   signaling system to band director at lunch so that he   
   doesn't have  to try to ditch band class later that   
   afternoon.   
      
   Band director hears my explanation and apologizes to the   
   fellow, in front of the entire band.   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
   --- timEd 1.10.y2k+   
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