Wednesday, April 19, 2006

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Once went to see this on Broadway (and the "Sound of Music" in a big theater) with the band, and Mr. Lafayette, our director and teacher. We were sort of fortunate we had a good music department, the director Mr. Trucello, went on to run the State music program in Albany, NY. With it I played a rented clarinet, the alto saxophone, the bass clarinet and the tenor saxophone. I had once wanted to play the bassoon, the teacher played "Flight of the Bumblebee" on a clarinet and handed us a trumpet. My dad worked nights so the trumpet was out and we rented a clarinet from (the only black one, the rest were metal for marching bands and brass band in general) the "Keyboard Corner" in nearby Ronkonkoma, New York ("big" lake there on a couple of towns, formerly four native American "groups".) The Devil and Miss Jones: What's your name? G. Walker Bush: Bush, B-U-S-H. G. Walker Bush. The Devil and Miss Jones: Well, why haven't I seen you before? G. Walker Bush: Well, ma'am, I'm not supposed to deliver the executive mail. That's his job. Bud Frump, F-R-U-M-P.

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