The band was not playing.
I believe it has something to do with the woodwinds and safety
protocols.
My son is in grad school for music performance and plays in a couple of
orchestras. Woodwinds are a COVID nightmare. You can't wear a
mask, since you play them by blowing into them. You can put a cloth
over the open end to keep the air from coming out that way (they also do
that with the brass instruments), but that's not good enough, because you
change the pitch on a woodwind by covering or uncovering holes in the
side of it -- leaving plenty of other places for the air to get
out.
The Clarkson bell was there
however.
Percussion instruments are not affected :-)
--
Bill
Fenwick
DJF 5/27/94
Cornell '86 and
'95
JCF 12/2/97
LET'S GO RED!!