a friend of mine was in the Marine Corps Drum and Bugle Corps in 71, he wound up in Vietnam in 72, the officers daughter he was playing around with still remains a mystery...Classical Ping
Both the Twin Cities have had excellent orchestras for generations. They are starving for money now.
Nobody seems to realize this is an unintended consequence of driving all the rich people out of the state with our confiscatory taxes.
I don’t know if it’s changed, but in the Corps division band members were also the graves and registration personnel (battlefield corpse finders.)
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a friend of mine was in the Marine Corps Drum and Bugle Corps in 71, he wound up in Vietnam in 72, the officers daughter he was playing around with still remains a mystery...This is about as interesting a thread as I have encountered in my brief 15 years here. Yes, the musical arts have been subsidized (perish the thought!) since this Republic’s founding, but in a limited way, and presumably to enhance the morale of those serving with distinction in the armed forces. I am all for a leaner FedGov, but maintaining these accomplished ensembles is not equivalent to funding the creation of so-called art involving the immersion of religious objects in bodily fluids.