AN INTERVIEW WITH LARRY MAXEY - The University of Kansas

A: Yes, there was a dance band. We played for all the school dances and we played for
money for some outside things as well.
Q: I supposed you participated in music contests.
A: Always.
Q: Solos or groups?
A: Mostly solos. We had a clarinet quartet one year but it was mostly solos. We had a
saxophone group one year as well.
Q: Oh, you played saxophone too?
A: Yes, I played saxophone. If you are in a jazz band, you play szxophone and only
occasionally double on the clarinet. So I picked up saxophone in ninth grade, which was
very easy after learning the clarinet.
Q: Did you have influential teachers?
A: Those two. Fred Weber in grade school and junior high and Palmer Myran in high
school.
Q: Did you have jobs after school or in the summer?
A: I never worked. I did not want to own a car, and I wasn’t spending money on girls, so I
had no reason to need any money. I really wanted to spend my time doing other things.
So I never worked in high school, except for the dance band.
Q: Was it always assumed that you would go to college?
A: Oh, yes.
Q: When did you graduate from high school?
A: 1955.
Q: Where did you go for your undergraduate degree?
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