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Reaching for a Fifth

Nanarama encounters serendipity on Sirius radio as anodyne for her mixed feelings about the election:
I did get a marvelous and serendipitous coda to my day, thanks to the glories of Sirius radio. On the way home, I abandoned a cloying number on the Broadway channel for Met Opera. As I thought to myself what a [...]

A Visit to the Clarinet Wizard

Today I spent most of the day at Backun Musical Services, where I had sent my clarinet for an overhaul. From the moment I walked in the door, I felt more than welcome: everyone there was overflowing with enthusiasm about what Backun is doing to advance woodwind technology, and wanted to make sure that I [...]

The Call of the Northlands

Tomorrow we’re taking off on our first real vacation in four years: a driving tour up to British Columbia and back.
The inspiration for the trip was my taking up the clarinet again after about 15 years and getting really serious about it. One of the world’s foremost clarinet experts is in Burnaby (a suburb [...]

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