| Hi Doc:
Thank you for always being such an inspiration to countless trumpet players like myself. I was fortunate to have heard you live in person when you played and conducted the symphony at the Waikiki Shell in Hawaii several years ago. I was also one of the lucky kids who got to meet you through my trumpet teacher, Richard Lum. Your trumpet playing always was and will continue to be "the sound" I hear whenever I think of a good, powerful and soulful trumpet sound. May your retirement be ever so wonderful and precious with your wife. Thank you again for your many contributions to the trumpet and music world.
Liz
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"I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it."
~from "The Shawshank Redemption" |