Classical Music

The last time that I played a trumpet was about 30 years ago when my high school invited the alums to join the regular band at a Homecoming ceremony so we were given matching T-shirts and marched in with the drum line prior to the game. When I was in high school our football team was terrible (they only scored a total of 39 points during a ten game season), so we definitely got a workout that night when the team scored over 50 points. The alums played the fight song ("On Wisconsin&quot without the students just before halftime when the football team scored and the students were getting ready for their show.

I will say that was a fun band director who had a great band--they advanced to the state concert contest in the spring and received a 1, 1, 2 from the judges. The judge that gave the band a 2 was a trombone player and that band used valve trombones instead of sliding trombones so he had a grievance. One other thing I liked about the band director was he poked some fun at the backwards rural life by selecting the "Theme to Green Acres" as the halftime musical piece.

By the way, I have played a little bit of baritone before since it is similar to playing the trumpet. I could actually hit the upper register notes better than those who played the instrument all of the time.