I said "audition tape"... I meant "recital tape"... -William
In a message dated 10/25/2003 6:58:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Subj: Re: [Hornlist] Faculty Entertainment (Great Story) > Date: 10/25/2003 6:58:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time > From: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> > Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> > To: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> > Sent from the Internet > > > > Our music faculty has an "entertainment" recording, but the sad thing is > it's > a really bad trumpet recital. Just to show you how much our former trumpet > professor thought of it, at an International Trumpet workshop (or it > could've > been national) he played this tape at a banquet with all these professional > trumpet players there. Everyone almost fell out of their chairs laughing. > > I was told this story too BEFORE I heard the audition tape. And, when I > heard > it I pretty much understood what was so funny. The poor guy who was > performing it didn't even know how bad it was, and he was very serious > through the > whole thing, so you had to admire his effort. > > Let's just say that the TUNING NOTE was missed about 5 times before he found > > it and it went downhill from there. I think the only thing worse are the > Tastee brothers. > > I really must procure a copy of that tape from my former teacher. > > -William > _______________________________________________ > post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > set your options at > http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/valkhorn%40aol.com > _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org

