The only thing I had in common with my cooler peers was a love for the Beatles’ music. Compared to playing guitar like my friends, there was nothing cool about the clarinet, in spite of a brief period of street cred bestowed upon us by Pete Fountain’s television appearances in earlier years. “It was 50 years ago today…” (well, actually last summer): June, 1967 – the “Summer of Love.” While everyone seemed to be growing their hair long, donning beads and attending love-ins, short-haired, pocket-protector-wearing me was playing clarinet in the high school marching band, thus solidifying my nerd status. Rock ’n’ Roll Clarinets?! The Beatles’ Use of Clarinets on Printed copies of The Clarinet are available for ICA members. Originally published in The Clarinet 45/3 (June 2018).
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