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Hi everybody-
Just setting up for this weekend's festival- Hope to see some of you there. Six quintets from across the eastern United States will be competing for three cash prizes. The competition is open to the public, along with exhibits, clinics and concerts. Find out more at http://www.calvinsmithfestival.org" target="_blank

This year's judges/faculty include Bernhard Scully, John Marchiando, Sande MacMorran, Don Hough, Tina Erickson and Robert Owen. It's going to be a great weekend- See you in Oak Ridge tomorrow and Saturday!

All the best,
Sean

Dear Dr. Greene,
Sean : Hope your festival went well. My ex-wife was a contestant. Who won?
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I just "dropped by" to leave a note. I would like to extend to you the first opportunity of what could becomeis perhaps a number of requests to grant interviews(if some of my for sure to be??, some ) , to conduct an interview. It only seems fitting in the face of your "creating" "The Paul Haugan Historic Tuba Collection" (In name, at least). With Mike Lynch's mammoth(400+??) collection as a standard, the size and name seemed a bit ostentatious, but in the face of recent developments, my collection no longer seems so insignificant.

The occasion for the interview would allow you not only to "update" a widely used recource, (You've insured me immortality as a footnote, at the very least), but to be the first to address and present my dual career, which has, until this Friday the 13th, (the date probably not just coincidental), remained all but unknown, even to my family, and both my parents never had the opportunity to fully appreciate the scope and impact their son's lifelong tuba obcession.

Friday, I recieved long awaited post: The US State Dept. has cleared my Classified Information for my personal use.

I served from 1975-76 as "Volunteer Auxilliary Military Intelligence Personnel" for the
U.S. Army, and all the while thereafter as a "CIA Specialist Civilian Liaison" until 2005, when I "aged out" at age 50.

I was never a fulltime employee, and dispite what my titles may imply or convey, I was a "Footsoldier, Tuba Transporter", "Courier" and an "Artistic Public Nuisance". by my own definition.

All the while, I continued to play in the groups I now play in, one of the "conditions"
of my continued participation in being that I never was to be forced out of an orchestra concert. What started as a "job" of transporting Cerveny tubas from East to West, as U.S. Army Voluntary Courier in 1974 became a "career", developing into practically a contest within the agency (CIA) as to how many ways a tuba (and it's player) could be used as a foil, diversion or otherwise could be engaged to facilitate agency activities.

By 1990 or so, it became evident that my function was as much for comic relief, entertainment of overwrought agents, and a "stump the band(sman)" style series of practical jokes. So Sean, Want to take a crack at THAT?? 000