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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>TO: DJML<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>From: Norman Vickers, Jazz Pensacola<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Our gentle and genteel (also Gentile) moderator of DJML, jazz pianist/bandleader famous father Bob Ringwald, suggested that this would also be appropriate for out listmates. Bob, your suggestion is my command….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>____________________________________________</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>To: Musicians and Jazzfans list</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>From: Norman Vickers, Jazz Pensacola<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Our friend and Listmate, saxophonist/pianist/arranger Bob Loughrige sends this. How about a New Orleans funeral parade for Shakespeare?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks, Bob. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> Robert Loughrige [<a href="mailto:ohiosaxman@yahoo.com">mailto:ohiosaxman@yahoo.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 24, 2016 8:58 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:nvickers1@cox.net">nvickers1@cox.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Fw: On anniversary of his death, a Jazz Funeral for Shakespeare<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461506205251_3163"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:black'>Norm,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461506205251_3163"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:black'>i didn't know if you'd run across this yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461506205251_3163"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:black'>Bob<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:.25in;background:white'><span style='color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461506205251_3148"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461506205251_3147"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461506205251_3146"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461506205251_3150"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>----- Forwarded Message -----<br><b>From:</b> <br><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461506205251_3213">To:</b> Robert Loughrige <<a href="mailto:ohiosaxman@yahoo.com">ohiosaxman@yahoo.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 24, 2016 12:40 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> On anniversary of his death, a Jazz Funeral for Shakespeare </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461506205251_3145"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div id=yiv6633253460><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461506205251_3144"><div id=yiv6633253460divtagdefaultwrapper><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461506205251_3143"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#404040'>Shakespeare’s Celebrations set out to be something very special this year and success looks assured as guest musicians from the United States bring their unique cultural contribution to the 400</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#404040;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>th</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#404040'>Anniversary Celebrations in Stratford-upon-Avon on 23 April: the School of Liberal Arts from Tulane University in Louisiana will perform a New Orleans Jazz Funeral for William Shakespeare, complete with music provided by The Wendell Brunious Band. They will join the annual procession of dignitaries, VIPs, school students, and marching bands in Shakespeare’s Birthday Parade to his grave at Holy Trinity Church.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#404040'>Directed by Wendell Brunious, one of New Orleans’ preeminent jazz trumpeters, the band will consist of five professionals, assisted by two student musicians. Dressed in black, they will be led in the procession through the streets to Holy Trinity Church in traditional jazz funeral fashion by a ‘Grand Marshal’ who will wear a sash naming the honoree, Shakespeare. Behind the band comes the traditional ‘second-line’, sporting small umbrellas and handkerchiefs which they twirl and wave as they dance a two-step in the band’s wake. Brass dominates the band’s performance, as well as snare and bass drum and, on this trip, a banjo.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#404040'>“The jazz funeral has a clear change of tempo from sombre remembrance to lively celebration, full of music, dancing and expression. That contrast seemed exactly right for our Parade which marks both Shakespeare’s birthday and his death, aged 52, on the same day</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#404040'><a href="https://www.shakespearescelebrations.com/stars-of-new-orleans-jazz-pay-tribute-to-the-bard-400-years-after-his-death/" target="_blank" title="https://www.shakespearescelebrations.com/stars-of-new-orleans-jazz-pay-tribute-to-the-bard-400-years-after-his-death/Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link">https://www.shakespearescelebrations.com/stars-of-new-orleans-jazz-pay-tribute-to-the-bard-400-years-after-his-death/</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>