[Dixielandjazz] Salute to the Tuba Playeers

[John McClernan]

Hi Dan,
What you wrote is ironic. The work for tuba players in the Philly  
area has diminished to a trickle. I teach music in a middle school  
and have added the rôle of assistant technologist in order to make up  
for the lack of music work. So now I am getting a second masters, in  
Education Technology, after which I will test for my certification as  
an Apple Certified Support Professional. Opposite of you, the tuba  
jock is becoming a computer jock. I should be able to do this until  
they put 6 handles on me. And computers are lighter than tubas anyway.
Cheers,
John


On Apr 14, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Dan Augustine wrote:
> Folks--
>     Well.  What can i say?  I was one of them.
>     You'll notice that i wasn't (ahem) actually WORKING as a tuba- 
> player.  No indeed, i couldn't get a job teaching tuba and music  
> theory (my 1979 Ph.D. was in music theory, not tuba), so i became a  
> computer jock and retired from it four years ago.  NOW i'm back in  
> music, playing in over five bands and getting my old brass- 
> arrangements finally published.
>     Lisa and i worked as computer programmers at the University of  
> Texas in the 1980s.  Way to go, Lisa, getting your letter published  
> in the _New York Times_!  See you in October.
>
>     Dan
>
> c: Lisa, interested others
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>> From: Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
>> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:55:44 -0400
>> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Salute to the Tuba Playeers
>> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>>
>> List Mate John McClernan pointed to the following letter to the NY  
>> Times about creative right brain activities. The last paragraph  
>> salutes the tuba players.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Steve Barbone
>>
>> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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>> To the Editor:
>>
>> Re "Let Computers Compute. It's the Age of the Right  
>> Brain." (Unboxed, April 6):
>>
>> Making computers work, however, is also right-brain creative  
>> activity. A software developer, for example, must talk to  
>> customers to understand the software's desired behavior, then come  
>> up with the best design to meet different and often conflicting  
>> requirements: efficiency, performance, stability, usability, ease  
>> of maintenance and so on. It's an art and a craft.
>>
>> When I started as a software developer in the early '80s, I worked  
>> on a team with three Ph.D.'s in music - all tuba players! Most  
>> good professionals I've known over the years - programmers,  
>> database administrators, testers, system administrators - are also  
>> accomplished artists, musicians and/or writers.
>>
>> Lisa Crispin
>>
>> Castle Rock, Colo., April 7
>
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> **  Dan Augustine  --  Austin, Texas  --   
> ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu **    "The tuba is the certainly the  
> most intestinal of instruments, **     the very lower bowel of  
> music." --  Peter De Vries             
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