Middlebury College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Middlebury, VT)

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The thing I remember most about playing in the school band when I was a kid is that we always spent what seemed like a thousand times more hours rehearsing for a concert than we spent play- ing the concert itself, and no matter how we played when the big night finally came — whether we sounded like the New York Symphony or like a New York subway — our parents always came backstage afterward and took our hands and said my, what a marvelous performance it had been. After a while I reached the point where I was more excited about the rehearsals than the concerts, because I knew in rehearsals that I couldn ' t expect somebody to walk up to me automatically after I finished playing and say, Gee, that was marvel- ous. When I came to college, I thought things would be different. I figured college people would be more critical and mOre honest about things like that. I guess they are a little. But it ' s still basically the same story, only now it ' s classmates instead of parents, and the language is changed. You guys were excellent. I loved it. So rehearsals are still my favorite part. PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE 25

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