Sorry. Not dead. Blog platform was experiencing technical difficulties. Which was frustrating because I have a whole new set of discoveries and thoughts to tell you about. But first, today while eating my bowl of rice in the break room at work, I was looking through May 2011 issue of The Music Trades and found something great:
Printed 75 years ago (that would have been 1936) in The Music Trades: "The Salvation Army has given official recognition to the saxophone. With this new recognition, the celebrated "hot" instrument will be heard whenever Army Bands play in the streets for their Citizens Appeal fund raising efforts. The move ends the strained relations that have existed between the Army and the sax ever since the instrument first stirred the pulses of the younger set."
I'm so glad that the Salvation Army finally decided that the saxophone was a real instrument in 1936. Never mind the fact that it had been around and in use for nearly 100 years by then...
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