Don Menza on working with orchestras.

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Don Menza on leaving Buffalo.

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Don Menza discusses his ideal musical situation.

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Q: “How did you get out of Buffalo and on the road or away…”

A: “Well, I tried leaving. When I was eighteen, when I joined the Army and I wound up getting stationed in ... I was in Louisville for a year and then I went to Europe for two years. I went back home and got out of music for about six or eight months. I decided I was going to go to school and become an artist, you know, painter. But, what am I doing this for? I want to play the saxophone. So I started playing again and then I enrolled in a music school down in Fredonia and I decided I didn't want to do that either. I didn't want to become a music teacher.”