"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
04/12/2019 at 17:11 • Filed to: None
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
04/12/2019 at 17:11 • Filed to: None | 2
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Okay, I’ll play along. Here’s a picture of me in 1986, mullet, hipster photo-
gray glasses,
and all, after winning
a concerto competition (that’s me holding the trumpet, duh)
. In fact, my school (JMU) swept the contest. I would have been about 20 years old in this shot.
I still have that trumpet.
For Sweden
> ttyymmnn
04/12/2019 at 17:12 |
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jeez way to toot your horn
DutchieDC2R
> ttyymmnn
04/12/2019 at 17:24 |
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Pimp!
lone_liberal
> ttyymmnn
04/12/2019 at 17:30 |
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Here is 1983 in all of its glory. Well, the picture was actually taken 1982 but I graduated in 1983. Complete with photo gray lenses, naturally.
MattHurting
> ttyymmnn
04/12/2019 at 17:35 |
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JMU as in James Madison University? The Harvard of the South? That’s a FINE institution that has been attended by both my older brother and his daughter. And of course, myself.
Sovande
> ttyymmnn
04/12/2019 at 18:02 |
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Just Missed Uva. My sister went there. In the 90's.
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ttyymmnn
> lone_liberal
04/12/2019 at 18:08 |
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I graduated in 84. Suck it, George Orwell.
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ttyymmnn
> MattHurting
04/12/2019 at 18:10 |
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Yes, as in the Royal Dukes of JMU. But Harvard of the South? Not so sure. They had, and I’m sure still have, a very strong music program, probably one of the best in the state. I was fortunate to go there. And I miss the Valley. I miss the mountains. My roommate still lives down the road in Dayton.
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ttyymmnn
> Sovande
04/12/2019 at 18:11 |
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I just missed her then. I graduated with my BM (that’s bachelor of music, not the other thing) in 89. Good school.
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ttyymmnn
> Sovande
04/12/2019 at 18:12 |
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As for Just Missed UVA, the JMU music department kicked the shit out of UVA’s.
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Sovande
> ttyymmnn
04/12/2019 at 18:15 |
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I couldn’t even get in to JMU. Being from Northern Virginia meant you had to have better grades than I did to get into anywhere decent in state.
UVA is a terrible place. I went there once to a hang out with some him school friends and it was awful. JMU was a lot more fun.
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ttyymmnn
> Sovande
04/12/2019 at 18:35 |
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I would probably not have gotten into JMU if I weren’t a music student. My HS grades sucked (probably something to do with all that dope I smoked back in the day), and I was initially rejected by JMU and VT as a geography major (I wanted to be a cartographer). So I went to ODU for two years, where my grades were mediocre for the same reasons, but I excelled in music. So I made it into as a transfer JMU based on my audition. Once there, I stopped smoking dope and graduated with honors. As for those earlier years, I regret nothing. It was a lot of fun.
unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
> ttyymmnn
04/12/2019 at 19:02 |
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Group photo looks like you’re a bout to release the hottest cover of Brubeck’s Time Out
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ttyymmnn
> unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
04/12/2019 at 19:08 |
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Unfortunately, that was a very, very square group of musicians.
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unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
> ttyymmnn
04/12/2019 at 20:27 |
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I take they weren’t fans of jazz or bossa nova?
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ttyymmnn
> unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
04/12/2019 at 20:34 |
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Myself included. I love jazz, and I can swing when I have to, but I never learned to play jazz.
RacinBob
> ttyymmnn
04/16/2019 at 15:30 |
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Easter Week 1986... Playing Carnegie Hall with the UW-L Orchestra. PS - This accomplishment proves that anybody can rent Carnegie Hall on a slow week. Interesting point was Leonard Bernstein was in the audience having gone to school with our conductor.
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ttyymmnn
> RacinBob
04/16/2019 at 15:35 |
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I performed with the UT Wind Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in 1998, so yes, anybody can rent the place and say they’ve played there. However, Lenny wasn’t in our audience. But we did play Eyes of Texas on that stage. The rest of the program was somewhat of a bore, at least to me. My wife, who is not a musician, was able to tag along, and we had two great days in the City.