He picked up the saxophone and
clarinet when he was a freshman at McKinley High School in Chicago.
Not exact matches
He listened intently to the
clarinet, horns and piano, wincing slightly
when the needle hit a scratch, but mostly beaming (transfigured.?)
Now all my work friends laugh at me
when I go to the bathroom to «play my
clarinet.»
For instance, the timbre of a reedy
clarinet differs from a bombastic trumpet, even
when both instruments are hitting the same note.
Richard Fields: As a child,
when I attended C.S. 102 elementary school, I was given my first instrument, a
clarinet, which exposed me to a world beyond the neighborhood.
Early in the 1960s his father, a high school principal moved the family to the north Chicago suburb of Lincolnwood; then,
when he was 11 (1968) his father accepted a job at the International School of Bangkok, and the family spent the next five years in Thailand, where he became both an accomplished music student (cello, guitar,
clarinet and saxophone) and a voracious reader - his earliest literary passion being for nonfiction - particularly biographies and science.
Sometimes dogs will howl
when they hear sirens or other loud higher pitched sounds like
clarinets and flutes (or the ambulance or theme song that sets them off).
According to Brier, her interest in playing an instrument and producing music started in sixth grade
when she started to play
clarinet.