Excerpted from the Baltimore Dispatch:

Students of area jazz band teacher, Myrum Wormwicker, are tired of his optimism.

“It gets old,” said one trombonist, on the condition of anonymity.

“He’s just so positive.  And we’re so terrible.  I mean, half the kids aren’t even blowing into their instruments.  And our only flutist doesn’t even have a reed, for goodness’ sake.”

“It’s not that I want him to get angry, but we’d appreciate it if he would just temper his excitement at our performances a bit.”