The following is a story from the early 2000s where I revealed a prank I pulled on one of my favorite targets, our then-rookie member of the section, Charles (Chuck) Lazarus. I'm leaving the narrative in the same time I wrote it almost 14 years ago. Enjoy. ****************************************************** 12 Jan 2004 23:26 Okay, kids...grab …
Touring has changed for American and all to the good, I think. A long-overdue component has been added and that is contact with music students from area music schools. Of course, the area involved is wherever we happen to be playing. We have scheduled for us a number of masterclasses, clinics, and outreach visits that …
When the MO goes on tour we generally gather downstairs at MSP airport and get checked in as a group. In this case, we were separated into three separate flights although I don't know why that was the case. Sometimes you just can't find a single plane that has the space to carry all hundred …
I'm a big fan of the show Jeopardy. So, for today's exercise I'll begin with the answer in the hopes that it will answer an age-old question. Answer: Well, you ask to take up an instrument and your folks shell out the bucks for it. Maybe you take private lessons, maybe you don't. Sometimes you …
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When we hear the military bugle call, we know today as Taps, we do more than hear it: we feel it. It has varied meaning for those who embrace the smooth intervals which start in the middle register and rise the cusp of a bugle's high register only to waft gently downward again. That call …
I was already gone and basically ran to the front of the stage and saw a bald man with greying hair standing with a group of folks. I literally jumped off the stage and hugged him, my eyes stinging, us asking each other how we were doing and him closing the brief chat telling me how proud he was of me and the work I had done since I last saw him when I was a boy.
Manny Laureano 