Since the school year is commencing for kids again, I think this blog is appropriate to share even if some readers may take issue with it! (HA, yes, teachers have their favorites!) The fact is that another one of Nancy’s all time favorite saxophone students had his last official saxophone lesson this past week. Yup, you guessed it, I had to hear all about why she will miss working with this exceptional student. Not only was this…
There are times that you need to keep telling yourself that it will all be fine. Nancy says I can’t share on my blog the cause of all of our stress lately, so instead, I found something positive to share with my readers. You see, there is this cute little dog next door to us, named Peanut. Sometimes, Peanut’s family brings her over to play and other times, I have to ask permission to play with her. …
It has been quite some time since I was able to listen to one of Nancy’s Saxophone Performance classes. During all the lockdowns, she would host bi-weekly zoom performance classes for her saxophone students. If you are acquainted with me, you know that I have a dog bed in her small saxophone room. For this reason, I am able to listen to all of her on-line saxophone lessons and classes. Not only do I feel familiar with…
Sometimes it takes our cable company to have a power outage to force me to write my blog. It is only 5:15 AM at our home. Therefore, I am forced to hear all about the old days, long before cable TV or internet. This morning, Nancy rambled on and on that by 6:30 most mornings, she would have completed her various scales from major to melodic minor, accompanied by the chromatic interval studies, not to mention endless LONG tones. There was…