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, that’s what it takes to be amember
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 his
playing. Rounding out the trumpet section is
Craig Bauer.
And at last the horns are coming out of the woodwork!!! We now have
on board
Mary Sherk,
Trish Kirkpatrick,
and
Trillian Roper.
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. A recent addition is
Chapel Hill resident
Brad Gibson, who joins us
after a 25 year hiatus from trombone playing. “I’m really terrible,
no question about it” states Brad in his RTOOT audition.
“Fortunately, I’m really good at playing pianissimo.”. We also
welcome
Brenda Peterson who brings her
bass trombone to round out the section.
Trish
Weaver joins the Tuba
section as a result of her audition in Durham, and
Joe Lowman will be joining
the tuba section from Chapel Hill.