Had breakfast this morning with my first bassoon teacher and the layers of memory, all of the joy of learning to play came flooding back, listening to his familiar, nuanced, animated voice
and seeing his dear face, so unchanged after 40 years of knowing each other. For reasons that are forgotten, we have not
seen each other much in the last few years.
Christopher Millard is an international star and I have been busy
too. Yet this morning, in gray rainy
Toronto, in the elegant open restaurant at the Intercontinental, we were in
non-stop conversation, comparing reed confessions and aspirations, talking
about our new generation of talented students, about our aging parents and our
own lives…. Spent another hour interviewing Guy Legere about his amazing polymer
reeds… Finally reluctantly said goodbye, wanted to stay longer yet left happy
and inspired anew.
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