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Definitely. Once I realized that those walls don't really exist in my world anymore except as objects to knock my head against, I stopped having nearly as many headaches. Funny how that works... And for real, I would love to see you at least occasionally on YouTube in a presenter role. Just roll with it.

Anything works if it gets you what you want. Not saying that to be cute, just that you have to really know what it is you want out of your music before you go about trying to get it. If you want it to be a business (not the music itself, but the releasing of it...or to think of it as environmental science, "releasing" of it into the wild), then that's one mechanism. If you want personal recognition, that's another. If you want to just "be there", that's yet another. Point is - as long as you get what you really want, you'll be happy with it. And as long as you're not getting that, doesn't matter what you get. Truthfully, I think you'd make a great YouTube presence. Don't know if that's any sort of a monetize-able model, past, present, or future, but you'd be great just sitting there talking about whatever shit comes into your head in the order that it comes. Just you being you about whatever. That's a platform for incorporating the visual, the verbal, and the musical, and in any proportion you feel at the moment. That, or a podcast doing the same thing. although...no visual there. In both cases, relatively small overhead, immense upside for visibility. And if you are looking to monetize your stuff, growing visibility sets up a potentially valid pivot point into that. Wishing you well on the medical/pain stuff too. Don't know what it is, but at some age we all start getting pain of one sort or another, most of us do anyway. At some point it goes past just annoying into a real bother. Take care of yourself!

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Thanks, Mark, I've ordered a few of those. Gotta love buying used classical on Amazon, hard NOT to explore at those prices.

What was the older (early 60s?) short story that had a similar reference, only the saxophonist wasn't actually referred to as Sonny Rollins?

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Did you really take a bath in Lysol, or did you just use the spray version? The cover strangely stirs memories of early Liberty for some reason.

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I had a truly great system for about 18 months back in the late 70s, but then my apartment got broke into and it got stolen. Since then, I've tried to - for decades - to duplicate natural listening conditions as much as possible. As fate would ahve it, Brenda didn't dig all the smoking and drinking, the raised hearth isn't deep enough for a drum set, and we don't have room - or money - for a concert hall in the back yard. So, Color Me Frustrated (if you must color me at all, that is).

Couldn't put that genie back in the bottle, eh? Good for her (I think?)! Seriously, she sounds like somebody I need to check out. any "significant" recordings to be recommended here?

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Thanks, been noticing the activity! And you know, jazz and vocals, no way to win that one!

Late 30s/Early 40s, yeah, that's still young-ish for an orchestra musician, The DSO's principal bassoonist retired this year after 50 years on the gig, and there's more than a few players in there who played with the band pre-Meyerson, which opened in 1989, so... Hearing the same band with different conductors has been fun for me this year, although honestly, I'm getting antsy for van Sweden to return. The absence of his, as that reviewer put it, "micromanagement"...I'm starting to miss it. How much of that is mostly repertoire-driven, hell if I know, still working on that level of understanding with this music.

http://www.sbnation.com/2012/12/14/3763550/the-x-collection-part-3-the-blue-note-albums A few examples: oh HELL yeah!

I'd think I'd have gone just to hear a symphony composed by a guy named "Jerry". That's not exactly an everyday opportunity! Leila Josefowicz is a new name to me (then again, most of them are, to be honest). She appears to be young-ish (38...only in classical music...) and no doubt has a lot of miles left in front of her, probably more than the ones she has behind her. She's a travellin' woman, she is: http://www.leilajosefowicz.com/full-schedule/ Wonder if she's been to, or will be to, Dallas...If I were taking cues from anybody, it would be her rather than your seat neighbor...and yes, always be ready to call a doctor! I'll go listen to anybody play Beethoven even halfway well...is your orchestra on the young side, and/or is So the in-house conductor? I always wonder with pieces like this how much time is possible for true refining and how much of it is just pros knowing the repertoire and playing the gig, with the conductor just focusing in on key spots in whatever rehearsal time they all get. I really don't know how that works, a combination of both I suppose, but in what balance...not a clue.

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