"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Happy Feet Friday
Artie Shaw and his orchestra exhort the Lady to Be Good.
Steve: I started playing clarinet when I was in 8th grade, and continued into high school, too. I would have killed to be able to hit the kind of high notes Artie Shaw attained.
Having started playing clarinet in high school, I was early on a fan of Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman (though I was never very good at the instrument).
ReplyDeleteWhat I didn't know until recently was that Shaw spent the last years of his life in the town where I went to high school.
Small world.
Steve: I started playing clarinet when I was in 8th grade, and continued into high school, too. I would have killed to be able to hit the kind of high notes Artie Shaw attained.
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