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Post by peaceloveoboe on Oct 4, 2007 18:26:54 GMT -5
In March of 2006 (the 10th, to be exact), one of our baritone/trombone players died. His name was Tommy Robinson, and everyone knew him as one of the kindest and funniest people on earth (and no one can forget that in his last band picture, his beret looks like the pope's hat!). He was an incredible person. He had been in the hospital up in Atlanta since late January with some type of upper resperatory infection. We think he got viral pneumonia when he went to Morocco. He died of massive internal bleeding and his lungs collapsing.
It was the saddest thing. He was just an 8th grader.
That's the never forget 031006 in my signature.
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Post by aznfiddle on Oct 4, 2007 23:56:28 GMT -5
A girl who would have been a freshman in guard died in a 4-wheeler accident before band camp. She would have graduated this year. There's a scholarship in memory of her that her parents give to a graduating senior that's pursuing music in college. Yea... She was one of my closest friends...
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Post by Sherri the Bari on Oct 15, 2007 23:10:25 GMT -5
We had a former band student get in a wreck over the weekend She was a cross-country runner Had full college scholarships She's paralyzed from the neck down.. She's a senior And she's the second kid at our school to be paralyzed before their senior year.
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Clarinaut
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Post by Clarinaut on Feb 4, 2008 20:35:54 GMT -5
In November, a choir kid who recently quit the band died in a car accident. It was so shocking because he used to go to my junior high and his choir went on tour with the band. He was just a junior.
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Post by saxplayer12 on Feb 5, 2008 21:14:30 GMT -5
I'm lucky enough to have not known anyone who has died or gotten in a serious injury.
However my band director had someone die in front of him about 15 years ago, he stabbed himself by accident.
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Post by Clarinaut on Feb 5, 2008 22:41:39 GMT -5
Yikes! I feel sorry for your band director!
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Post by brassdancer on Feb 7, 2008 12:32:09 GMT -5
Guaranteed to make your mouth hurt.
My marching band director told us a story about hazing in my marching band techniques class. A kid from a college I will leave unnamed was drunk after a horn section social gathering , and he was a rookie. As part of his initiation right, they blindfolded him and made him do commands with a horn. He did backwards, forwards, blah blah .. until they marched him straight into a wall with horns up.
All his teeth were busted out.
His dad was a high powered lawyer in Florida.
OUUUUUUUUUUCH!
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Post by moe on Feb 10, 2008 17:55:42 GMT -5
ooohh yikes. thats pretty painful i'd guess. =(
I'm really hoping I don't get any horrid injuries in my marching band career. =\
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Post by NinjaBaker on Feb 18, 2008 16:11:04 GMT -5
The kid's not in band, but a freshman at my high school died this weekend. My girlfriend had biology with him.
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Post by 1frodos1 on Feb 27, 2008 20:37:51 GMT -5
Not in band but when Southern California had huge fires a kid in my chem class was out for 4 monthes with sever burns(came back recently ) ,his dad was our assistant wrestle coach and he died
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Post by altoclarinets on Mar 1, 2008 11:46:35 GMT -5
one of our band kid's mom's died a few months ago... it was really sad...
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Post by iFrostyflute on Mar 2, 2008 19:52:08 GMT -5
Not related to my band, and I can't remember just what band it was, but I heard a news story last year about a band's tour bus getting in an accident that killed, I think, 3 band members and the director. I just hate to think about what we would do if something like that happened. Yeah, I heard about that. Chippewa Falls Cardinal band, if I recall. We haven't had anything besides the traditional broken ankles and torn ligaments and such. But we may have a reason why our silent and emotionless band director is so silent and emotionless: he was in college at the University of Colorado (in Denver, I guess) when Columbine happened. It's further evidenced with a story from last year: he was practicing a Columbine tribute song with the second band when he just stopped directing, went into the sink room (a room where we store the hats, get the water for games, and there are no windows) and didn't come out. Some say he cried.
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Post by lowbrasskicksrearend on Mar 4, 2008 8:05:52 GMT -5
Last year one of our lead trumpets, a junior, got cancer. The band set up fundraisers to help him. This year he is free of cancer and in the All-State band, as a cornet 1. Also last year one of our euphonium players had to get surgery on his knee from a soccer accident. For most of band camp he was on crutches.
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Post by thefluteninja on Mar 4, 2008 18:36:18 GMT -5
there was a plane crash not too far off from here, and one of the passengers was an alum of our band. it was sad to hear the news, even if no one in our band really knew him that well.
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Post by altoclarinets on Mar 19, 2008 22:17:39 GMT -5
Not related to my band, and I can't remember just what band it was, but I heard a news story last year about a band's tour bus getting in an accident that killed, I think, 3 band members and the director. I just hate to think about what we would do if something like that happened. Yeah, I heard about that. Chippewa Falls Cardinal band, if I recall. We haven't had anything besides the traditional broken ankles and torn ligaments and such. But we may have a reason why our silent and emotionless band director is so silent and emotionless: he was in college at the University of Colorado (in Denver, I guess) when Columbine happened. It's further evidenced with a story from last year: he was practicing a Columbine tribute song with the second band when he just stopped directing, went into the sink room (a room where we store the hats, get the water for games, and there are no windows) and didn't come out. Some say he cried. How sad. I'd probably be silent and emotionless too.
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