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Subject: [Leica] RETROSPECT 116
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 21:41:40 -0500
References: <CABAowZ6W2rSscH3NxNjUif2ZdQJvuq7xG1a4EXzUeGeF-d5DkA@mail.gmail.com>

Great story, great photo.

On 4/21/20 9:32 PM, Bill Clough via LUG wrote:
>     In 1980, on a cultural exchange assignment to Guatemala, I was paired
> one evening with the first-chair cellist of the Guatamala City, Mr. Manuel
> Alvarado. In high school, I held first chair cello in the orchestra, but I
> never learned how to read music. My mother was a trained concert pianist,
> so I had her play the music and then I played it mostly by ear. At the
> start of my senior year, I was hit with a sight-reading challenge and I
> went from first to fourth chair in 20 minutes. I looked at the class
> schedule and discovered the same time period for orchestra was a journalism
> class. The rest is history. I told Mr. Alvarado the story. After dinner, he
> asked me to play his cello. It had been 21 years since I had held a cello.
> It took me 15 minutes just to get the fingering for scales. ?You have music
> in your soul,? he said. ?Let me show you something.? He got a flashlight
> and illuminated the inside. I had been playing scales on a Stradivarius.
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/RETROSPECT/Manuel+Alvarado_+Guatamala+City_+1980+___+02107.jpg.html
>
>
> ?Bill
>
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-- 
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA



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