Ah, memories of a high school orchestra trip: Watching a famous instrument manufacturer create a violin...Rehearsing our music under the batons of two college orchestra directors...Being implored to eat an egg roll...
...I have a lot of memories from the two trips my high school orchestra took to Chicago, but for some reason, my clearest memory is this dialogue between my high school orchestra director and me, as the director, several orchestra members, and I ate at a Chinese restaurant:
Mr. D.: Have an egg roll.
Me: No, thank you. I'm already full.
Mr. D.: No? Yes!
Me: I've eaten egg rolls before.
Mr. D.: But you haven't eaten these egg rolls. There are no teeth marks on them.
Strangely, I don't remember which pieces our orchestra played on that trip, but I remember this exchange from 1986. It's yet another entry in the "Orchestra directors have unusual personalities" canon.
