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Laurie frink3/15/2023 ![]() ![]() No women played in the UNL marching band or jazz band. Of the school's 40 trumpet majors, Laurie was the only female. Her only option was to major in music education. Laurie wanted to major in performance, but UNL didn't allow female students to do that. Lucille Ball (one of the first women to have her own TV show) starred in I Love Lucy with her Cuban bandleader husband, Desi Arnez. Les Paul & Mary Ford had a hit record: How High the MoonĪ musical, An American in Paris, won Best Picture Oscar Best Actress: Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire. Truman was President of the United States Seeking more advanced instruction, she applied for admission to the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, 100 miles south of Pender. ![]() There wasn't much to do in Pender so Laurie spent a lot of time practicing and soon became a fine trumpet player. She didn't know much about the instrument, only that “it was like a bugle.” “I picked the trumpet, because it was shiny,” Laurie later said. Her mother agreed to let her quit piano if she chose another another instrument to study. Laurie loved music but she hated playing piano. The family had no records and didn't listen to music, but Laurie's mother made her take piano lessons. Her mother, Carol Frink, was a homemaker. Her father, James Frink, was a candy salesman. 1,000) seems like an unlikely place to spawn a world-reknown trumpeter, but that's where Laurie Frink was born and raised. The tiny farm community of Pender, Nebraska (pop. (Maria Schneider's arrangement of Giant Steps) ![]()
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