Frank B. wrote:
led the cheering, so the level of enthusiasm should be viewed with
some skepticism.
Okay, so I brought half of New Jersey with me. Bill Andersen (master of
ceremonies) said WOW, did you bring half of New Jersey with you? ;-).
He then introduced me to the conductor for the guitar ensemble and I
could not figure out why until the conductor (prodded by Bill)
introduced himself as an ex-Marine who left an intelligence division in
Iraq on medical disability and then out. He then introduced me to his
sister, who was STILL such a non-com and was headed back. They showed
me a picture the OTHER sister who was still there!
Let me assure you, NEVER EVER judge a book by its cover. You would not
have picked this long haired, VERY stereotypical musical scene type nor
his GORGEOUS sisters out as Marines.
When Bill and I compared notes, we found that Frank has almost managed
to keep his musical and “polymath” worlds completely separated. We have
each known Frank as long as the other and I never heard Frank mention
Bill until the (now infamous) George Antheil Music Festival (coinventor
of Spread Spectrum with Hedy Lamarr and major composer).
The presenters may actually have made some money on this show. That is
the part nobody could have predicted.
With packed house, and people TURNED AWAY at the box office (I heard
them doing it as Meghan arrived late), I believe all parties made
money. Congratulations indeed.
After many decades of being a composer, it’s my belief that writing
music is a lot like architecture: the fundamental task is to make sure
nobody gets killed or injured by your work. By that standard, the
evening was a raging success.
And here I thought that the process was simply living long enough
without getting killed or killing yourself so that your contemporaries
were too senile or tired to know better. ;-).
My greatest thanks to everyone.
Frank
Our thanks to you for allowing us to have so much fun by having you as a
peer. The evening was fun beyond belief until I picked up the bill for
four people at Trattoria del Arte.
Now! Can we do some ham radio?
Bob
–
AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL,
TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR WG Chair
“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by
definition, not smart enough to debug it.” - Brian W. Kernighan