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I didn't know where exactly to post this. But I found out the last couple days that three of my kids won awards for best soloists in the Arts High School category. The small band that I direct recorded last year and we entered it to db. The previous year we won as a band, this year evidently we didn't but we did get some soloist awards. First, saxophonist

Michael Davenport who is now at Manhattan School of Music, probably the best player I ever taught. He was a pain in my ass and difficult, but a harder worker I have never seen and he just kills. Jeremey Jordan, a pianist who will next year go to Juilliard (on a total scholarship) also won, he's a terrific classical player that we drafted into jazz, and he has become as good at the latter as he is at the former. (As a classical player, he's played at Orchestra Hall in Chicago with the Chicago Sinfonietta, in Prague with the Czech National Symphony and at Carnegie Hall with At the Top). And baritone sax player Jonah Parzen-Johnson who is a freshman at NYU got an honorable mention. These are all guys I taught from when they were tykes and I am certainly kvelling and getting tremendous nachis. Supposedly I'm not supposed to say anything until the June issue of db comes out, but y'all can keep a secret, right?

Michael McLaughlin


There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde

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