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Retro-retrospection - 2008-10-06
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6:27 p.m. - 2003-05-14
The Last Concert (for a while) Tonight is Alex's last school band concert. It seems like it was a million years ago that I sat in the intermediate school auditorium and listened to the first one. A red faced gang of fifth graders huffing out nursery rhyme tunes on plastic recorders. There were chorus concerts before that, but the Flute-o-phone serenade was the first instrumental offering. The next was at the middle school on real musical instruments. The sixth graders had their own band and it was difficult to keep a straight face as the kids honked, squawked, and groaned through a couple of numbers. My favorite was the Can-Can. That sprightly French tune was played so slowly it sounded like a funeral dirge. The Spring concert of that year was a bit better, but I was 7 months pregnant with Wolf and at every cymbal crash and boom from the tympani drum the baby jumped and made the front of my shirt poof up. I’m afraid I was giggling too much to be a truly attentive audience. The kids improved and by the time they got to high school they were sounding pretty darn good. Looking good too, the boys in tuxes and the girls in black gowns. Alex signed on with 2 of the smaller ensembles, jazz band and brass ensemble where he plays the trombone instead of the baritone he plays with the larger concert band. My kid is on stage for almost the entire time, and now that Wolf is no longer a squirming toddler he listens happily to his big bro do his thing. Prodigy Wolf wants to play too and I don’t know how to tell him that Special Ed kids aren’t allowed to participate in extra-curricular activities. At least as of right now they aren’t. Momzilla will be having much to say about that as Wolf goes on with his schooling. Methinks this will not be the last concert with a Sage kid as a participant. Tonight though belongs to Alex. He’s calling for me to help with his bow tie and cummerbund...for the last time. Damn this kid! He’s ready to play his swan song, but I don’t know if I’m ready for this. Where did the time go? A little misty, but coping. ~LA
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