At 9/22/2009 06:52 PM, dhbailey wrote: >Phil Daley wrote: >> At 9/22/2009 05:07 PM, dhbailey wrote: >> >> >Excellent -- do you also know George Kent, who has >> >accompanied Edward Tarr on many occasions? >> >> Is he fairly old? >> >> I had a George Kent (fantastic trumpet player) teach me clarinet at >> Stonington High School in 1963. >> >> He showed me an F-trumpet, I had never seen one before. >> > >He might well be the same one -- he's the trumpet professor >at Univ. of Rhode Island. He also conducts the Westerly >Chorus and Orchestra in Westerly, R.I. (where he's lived >forever, it seems.) Back in the 1960s he might well have >taught in the public schools in CT. My son's studying with >him at U.R.I. my son has grown a lot under George's >guidance. My son gets a kick out of the fact that George >will swear at him in many different languages >(good-naturedly, of course) when my son messes up.
Westerly is next door to Stonington. Must be him. I really liked him. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
