Three Valves wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 9:13 am
Including Count Basie, Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Carol Channing in a Hello Dolly revival.
At the end of trying a university teaching gig on for size for a year (deciding - all along - whether to stay, or to go back that that which I had previously done), I informed the person - who had hired me to teach the tuba students at a major university - that I would be leaving.
Throughout the year, I had made lists of reasons to stay, and reasons to leave.
Just a few of the reasons
for leaving were:
- misrepresenting defacto net pay (fees vs. income)
- there having been (in forty-years-ago dollars) about $30K of freelance gigs waiting for me, back home.
- being told that
I would NOT be allowed go hear Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, and Count Basie, because I was expected to play the SSB with the faculty brass quintet - on a windy 45-degrees November Saturday morning - for a new computer center ribbon-cutting ceremony, when I had a student (who actually played just about as well as I did) who would have been happy to play that freebie gig for me.
The worst loud retorts (to my low-voice informing of departure) were:
- They didn't appreciate my wife's old all-we-could-afford car dripping oil in the street out in front if his house, seven months earlier.
- They were outraged that I laughed at their former-teacher's loud-colors plaid sport coat, after their former teacher performed at a statewide music educator shindig.
bloke "Leaving there was one of my life decisions about which I'm particularly proud."
...with a song in my heart!
From other accounts, I've heard that he was not always so delicate with his words. So, this was my tiny portion of that.
