The Really
Terrible Orchestra Of the Triangle (RTOOT)
who
are we? -- brass section
Cindy Fowler is playing first
trumpet.
Cindy says she
doesn’t have a very zany life, but she claims, “despite that I am a
4th degree black belt (yep, I am deadly enough to kill cockroaches
with a single shoe).” She enjoys playing the trumpet whether anyone
else enjoys hearing it or not, and that’s what it takes to be a
member of The Really Terrible Orchestra Of the Triangle
(RTOOT).
Neil Barry, Raleigh
psychologist, has also joined the trumpets. Neil
specializes in trauma therapy and will be available for
post-concert sessions, gratis, for anyone who is traumatized by our
playing. Rounding out the
trumpet section is
Sarah Schwarzer, who started
playing terribly in elementary school and has not been improving
ever since. She works in water quality, and while the sound of a
babbling brook is music to her ears, her own playing is not. She
was a member of the Kiltie marching band in Sarasota, Florida many
years ago, and fondly remembers having 30+ other trumpets to drown
her out. Her high shool band instructor would be happy to know
she's finally quit smoking those nasty
cigarettes.
And at last the horns are coming out of the woodwork!!! We now have
on board
Mary Sherk,
Trish Kirkpatrick,
and
Trillian Roper. Upon reaching
adolescence,
Trillian decided she
needed to come up with a more imaginative way to annoy her parents
and five younger siblings (as spit balls at the dinner table had
quickly lost their appeal)- the first idea was to strangle a goose
in the living room every night- which upon reflection proved to be
rather messy- so she decided to take up the French horn
instead.
Our trombone section is headed up by
Brian Walker. He saw an ad in
the Independent
asking for
terrible trombones and was delighted to discover that his dogs are
now too old to chase him. However, daughters (3 and 1) are picking
up their slack. He had a great deal of difficulty blowing years and
years of accumulated dust off his instrument.
Brenda Peterson has to practice
her bass trombone while her dog Camy is out of the house as the
sound is so foreign to her ears that she barks and barks! She has
been playing bass trombone on and off since 1974 and remembers
vividly a poor piccolo player in her high school wind ensemble
being thrown into a trash can!!! Other fond memories - playing
trombone in a parade in Weistrach, Austria, playing with the
Hillyer Community Chorus and Orchestra and in the pit orchestra of
many high school musicals. Also, recently playing an Athenian
(while there was NO trombone part) in the Ruins of Athens piece and
knocking down columns and tormenting My Stroh.
Matthew Young has joined RTOOT
as a second trombone. He points out, "I play many instruments, but
trombone was the only one I felt I was sufficiently terrible at.
Unless, of course, My Stroh Hobgood wanted me to play
accordion."
Trish Weaver joins the Tuba
section as a result of her audition in Durham.