An experience all of us should have.
Back in 1982 I was a resident physician at a hospital in Akron Ohio. I was reviewing an x ray with an older radiologist and noticed that he had two cassettes with organ pieces on them. Turns out he was a huge organ buff. I copied a rare album of Cesar Frank's Complete Organ works on my Nakamichi Dragon and brought it to his office. Two days later he invited me to a concert at the Richmond Colosseum, the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. This is an open air venue and also hosts rock concerts. He drives right up to a small building which turns out to have the facility infirmary. He was one of the house physicians. There are four seats in the center boxes reserved for the house physicians. They are first come first serve. He hangs his picture ID from his neck, grabs a beeper and we head out to our seats. If there is an emergency he will get beeped or rather vibrated. That night was the Chicago Symphony Orchestra doing Orff's Carmina Burana. I have four copies of that piece and only one of them comes close to the performance that night. Afterwards we return to the infirmary. He takes me back to a small office, sits me down in front of a Polaroid machine and has my picture taken. I must have wet my pants. He made me a house physician! I could go to any concert I wanted. All I had to do was hang that picture ID around my neck, grab a beeper and take a seat. I never got beeped and I must have attended 20 concerts, all because I recorded a cassette expecting nothing in return, just sharing music with another organ buff.
