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I have made Boston my campus, and all of my students meet weekly for saxophone class and large ensemble, so everyone is a member of the family, and I believe we have a real saxophone culture here in Boston, with 25+ college students in my class, premieres, lectures, international guests and constant concerts. Everyone plays in a quartet. And I personally teach an equal number of preparatory (beginning at age 10) students at the Longy school, now numbering 5 ensembles, and 20 plus younger students. I have never depended on any school to provide me with students. I meet students in other places, I recruit them, suggest the school I believe will be best for them, give clinics in public schools, students write to me, and find my recordings out on the Internet, study with me at Tanglewood, in Brazil, Israel, China, Venezuela, Turkey or wherever I teach. I love to teach....

Random but specific acts of kindness, never expected, always appreciated and from which I have learned.

-With a note to self to pass on to others, and which I have tried to do same, these were received in particular from Bruce and Ruth Lynn, Steve and Sue Hilzenrath, Paul Brodie, Pam Adams, Robert Dodson (one of the finest leaders I have known), Charles Peltz, Pete Seeger, Fred Fennell, Jackie McLean, Jim Phelan and many others in everyday life.

-To Roy; thanks for all the help, non judgmental wisdom and understanding, and,

-Violet, who believes in me. The most wonderful person in the world, she is a great partner. I listen to all of her thoughts, ask her advice, and find her to be the most musical non-musician (incredibly sensitive to performance nuance) of anyone I've known.

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A Salute to (My) Teachers

7. 'We get by with a little help from our friends' - thanks to The Beatles (cont.)