![]() ![]() Katherine Hepburn won Best Actress for Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. In the Heat of the Night won the Best Picture Oscar. Ironically, two films with racial overtones won Oscars in 1967. However, that year the US Supreme Court unanimously ended laws prohibiting racial intermarriage, and Thurgood Marshall (photo below left) became the first African-American US Supreme Court justice. In 1967, there were race riots in Tampa, FL, and Buffalo, NY. The law outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Johnson signed The Civil Rights Act into law in 1964 (photo right). Undeterred, Laurie packed her things and left.ġ967 - 1972: Racial Strife, Assassinations, and Political Scandalsĭuring Laurie's high school and college years, the United States endured tumultuous times. Seated center, UNL jazz band director Dennis SchneiderĪfter graduating from UNL in 1973, Laurie told her parents she wanted to move to New York City and study with Jimmy Maxwell. In the trumpet section, Laurie is in the black shirt Don Gorder to her right in the purple shirt. Photo right (1972) courtesy of Don Gorder, now Music Business Dept Chair at Berklee College of Music. Recognizing Laurie's talent, he invited her to play in the jazz band. Laurie's trumpet teacher, Dennis Schneider, played principal trumpet in the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra. 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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