Thursday, August 26, 2010

@WanderingWilbo writes his daughter, budding master of Flautist Clout.

Hi, it's happy to know your flute has landed you a gig. Who would have
thought of a drought of flutes? So you know, I have Pandora programmed
to play me only classical music featuring the flute. I'm hearing a lot
of great music for the "Baroque Transverse" flute, and one of my
favorite sonatas in played upon it. I hear one of the first fully
professional musicians finally got his business going with the Baroque
Traverse Flute.

As I winged out to Amazon to check on that flute type, I notice Danica
McKellar is taking pre-orders for her new Algebra books, hitting
shelves August 3rd. It's called Hot X: Algebra Exposed. I'm wondering
if you'll enjoy it since all Algebra's secrets are opened and
possessed by you by now? Flutes and math, are they all I ever write
about? Well, for now, yes. It's exciting to learn more about flutes.
Not only is there the piccolo, there's the Irish flute. I'm sure
there's more. It's a great regret to me I haven't taken you to
Alexander Zonjic & the Flute Choir or visited Flute World with you.
Yes, there's such a place. And wait, you probably could audition for
Alexander before I get off my sorry rump! I have a feeling a flute is
going to be a handy way to open doors. I mean, it's a magical
instrument far above my petty efforts to understand it, and even if I
begged your instructor to teach me, I doubt I'll get it. I mean, if
one didn't pick a flute as your first instrument, there's perhaps an
error in ones soul? Maybe the flute picks the flautist and not the
other way around? (Oh, that is so wrong. I spelled FLAUTIST as
FLOUTIST first).

I was reading about this woman who led a troupe of musicians for a
jazz concert at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, a favorite
museum of mine. So you can perform jazz upon it. There's no pressure
from me, but Steve next door just announced that his trombone playing
daughter had been accepted into Western Michigan University's Trombone
Studio and won the Louis Armstrong and John Philip Sousa awards at
Mona Shores High School. Here's one reason there's no pressure. Steve
won both awards as a senior at Mona Shores. I was voted class
optimist, but beyond that, I left the graduation stage without any
trophies you have to re-earn. Okay, I did take State of Michigan twice
for the Readers Digest Public Speaking Contest, but that only proves
I'm a blowhard. I was so boring I hypnotized the judges. That hardly
counts.

Grandmom Bobber is still in hospital, but she's improving as they
balance out her elements of potassium and calcium and a physical
therapist had her walking in hallway Tuesday. I'm going to look in on
she and dad Friday or Saturday morning. She's in hospital, but she's
seeing a physical therapist and a neurologist, both important
specialists for her health right now. Keep rocking the flute, selling
those cookies, racking up that math and language knowledge and
clicking up the miles because she takes a lot a pleasure in knowing
how much fun you are enjoying. As for Facebooking my sister, she'll
go a long way on a little bit of text. Maybe we could make up a story
or two and you can dribble it to her and she can call me with her
"exclusive". "Amanda is going to the Mozarteum in Salzburg to play
flute for the Mozart Festival. Oh my gosh, Ann, thanks for telling
me!"

Isn't it strange that you are the only daughter in the world who gets
notes from her father with web links.
http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/play/1185875/alexander_zonjic_the_flute_choir
http://www.danicamckellar.com/ http://www.zonjic.com/
http://www.fluteworld.com/
http://www.moz.ac.at/english/

I should leave the office now and find some interesting and edifying
activity. Tomorrow starts the Lakeside Film Festival, with a lot of
cool shows getting screen. Michael Moore might show up again! Dad.

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