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We did the second performance of our Christmas concert at a church in Morgantown tonight. We were awesome!! Picture a stage with about 70 musicians - 3 tubas, 3 Euphoniums, 15 trumpets, 14 trombones, 1 bass clarinet, 10 clarinets, 1 french horn, 1 E-flat horn, 1 tenor sax, 8 alto sax, 1 bari sax, 6 flutes, plus percussion (bass drum, bells, snares, timpani, marimba, etc) - we actually had MORE last week! The members of this band range in age from 11 & 12 up to older than me even!
What was really awesome was the family of our band member who got us playing at this church in the first place, presented his tuba that was so precious to him that he always wore white gloves so he would not get fingerprints on it to the Community Band. When Gary died in 2006 they held his wake at the church. As you came in they had a painting of the LIFE magazine cover of Gary being pulled out of the Farmington #9 mine (he was the last man out alive) disaster in 1968 in the lobby, the Community Band CD playing, his Army uniform, rifle, and helmet at one end of the casket, and his tuba at the other. It was a very moving presentation tonight.
What was really awesome was the family of our band member who got us playing at this church in the first place, presented his tuba that was so precious to him that he always wore white gloves so he would not get fingerprints on it to the Community Band. When Gary died in 2006 they held his wake at the church. As you came in they had a painting of the LIFE magazine cover of Gary being pulled out of the Farmington #9 mine (he was the last man out alive) disaster in 1968 in the lobby, the Community Band CD playing, his Army uniform, rifle, and helmet at one end of the casket, and his tuba at the other. It was a very moving presentation tonight.