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09/30/2003 Archived Entry: "BLASTED OUT OF BED"

BLASTED OUT OF BED

There is something inexplicable about the location of our house and the way sound waves encounter it. There is no accounting for it, trees or no trees. Distance doesn't even seem to be a factor. You just can't tell from which direction the sound is coming or how far away it is. Maybe it's because the house is so whopper jawed.

At precisely 8:00 a.m. this morning I was awakened by the EHS High School band, in all its glory. They are terrific. It's as if they were below my bedroom window… right below it...not 100 yards away, or wherever they were. I could hear every word Ken was telling them.

And then there was the relentless drum beat. It's a great beat with lots of syncopation and diversity. Actually, the beat goes on….

I well remember during many of the “old days”, not all that many years ago actually, when it was noise I heard, of the worst kind….cacophonously emitted through an assemblage of instruments. It was not the kids fault the product was so bad. The change can be directly attributed to an excellent music department, excellent teachers from Susan Keith right on up through the ranks to Ken Hakoda. Is it any wonder one would want this degree of excellence to continue?

I’ve been listening to the EHS marching band practice for almost 30 years, note by note, year after year, from my excellent vantage point and I can tell you, there is a huge difference between “then” and “now”.

... and the beat go on….