THE LORIN SOLO - Synopsis
In the Prologue, a grave digger in St. Rita’s Cemetery, stops digging when he hears a trumpeter playing The Ave Maria, at a distant gravesite. The grave digger tells his grandson he has been hearing that same hymn every Labor Day for at least the twenty years he has worked there. The grandson runs off to investigate.
In Chapter One we go back twenty years. It is the late summer of 1985 in Concord, California. Our story spans a year with The Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps and we learn the history of The Ave Maria played first on a trumpet and then on a bugle.
Lorin Lenki, a scholarship music student at San Francisco State, meets Tracy Martin at The Institute of Hemophilia Research. Both are patients, both are musicians, both are waiting to see the doctor for a blood clotting factor replacement. What Lorin thinks is a trumpet case sitting next to Tracy, turns out to be a soprano bugle, likened to a trumpet but with only two valves. To pursue Tracy, thinking love at first sight, Lorin wants to join her drum and bugle corps.
Lorin’s audition on the trumpet is, The Ave Maria, and it wins him a spot as a soloist in the horn line of the world famous Concord Blue Devils Drum and Bugle corps, playing the soprano bugle. His competition for Tracy’s heart is a former Playgirl Centerfold, Aaron Weston, from Boston, who plays cymbals in the corps and is only available to the corps in the summer, but everyone knows he has been Tracy’s boyfriend for the last three years.
During the nine months leading up to the competitive summer tour, we get to meet Tracy’s parents. Her father is a music teacher and he taught Tracy the trumpet growing up. Lorin’s father taught him the trumpet but died from hemophilia complications when Lorin was twelve. He inherited his father’s trumpet and his mouthpiece which he kept inside a worn leather case and carried it with him always.
After nine months of getting to know the bugle and the corps maneuvers on the field with the help of Tracy and her dad, the boyfriend, Aaron, arrives in Concord for the cross-country tour of competitions. Weeks before the final competition for the world championship, Lorin learns that the relationship between Aaron and Tracy is more or less platonic on Tracy’s part because Aaron’s father makes a huge donation to the corps each year and she enjoyed having a trophy boyfriend, thinking it was for the good of the corps. The corps’ Bingo Hall is the major financial support of the corps. Their profits are threatened by a new Indian Bingo Palace only eight miles away. Aaron’s father makes an additional donation to the corps and Tracy continues her relationship with Aaron.
While in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Lorin and Tracy get to be alone on a gymnasium rooftop because Aaron is in New York auditioning for an underwear commercial. It is there on the rooftop that Tracy clarifies her relationship with Aaron and they kiss and embrace for the first time. Lorin always wanted a someone whose someone was him. At the final competition in Madison, Wisconsin, Aaron deserts the corps and Tracy, to make a commercial in Hollywood and fulfill his lifelong dream to become a movie star like Tom Cruise of Top Gun.
Lorin and Tracy make their love for each other known to the entire corps and everyone in the corps applauds the fact they are finally together.
During the time following the final performance and the retreat on the field to hear the scoring of the judges, Tracy has an aneurism caused by her hemophilia and is rushed to the hospital. The corps wins the championship and Lorin rushes to the hospital. Inside the small ICU unit, Tracy tells Lorin, “If I don’t make it, will you play, The Ave Maria for me?” They lose Tracy at dawn the following morning. Lorin goes outside so the parents don’t see him cry. Once outside he sees that all the busses, the equipment truck, the motor homes and cars from the corps were lined up along the hospital curb, waiting to hear about Tracy before leaving for California. They all see Lorin walking toward the motorcade, still wearing his uniform. Lorin stops, he shakes his head from side to side and they know she is gone.
At the funeral in St. Rita’s Cemetery, on Labor Day, Lorin plays, The Ave Maria. While playing, the entire horn line and one drummer arrive and surround the coffin to play with Lorin for the second stanza. On leaving the cemetery, Lorin promises Tracy’s parents that he will come to the cemetery every Labor Day, as long as he lives, to play for Tracy. Tracy’s father tells Lorin if ever he can’t make it on Labor Day, he would play for Tracy.
In the Epilogue that follows the last chapter, it is twenty years later. The grave digger’s helper runs to the sound of the trumpet and we learn it is Lorin playing The Ave Maria. We see there are three tombstones, one for Tracy, her twin sister Maria and the twins’ father, who died one year earlier.
In Chapter One we go back twenty years. It is the late summer of 1985 in Concord, California. Our story spans a year with The Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps and we learn the history of The Ave Maria played first on a trumpet and then on a bugle.
Lorin Lenki, a scholarship music student at San Francisco State, meets Tracy Martin at The Institute of Hemophilia Research. Both are patients, both are musicians, both are waiting to see the doctor for a blood clotting factor replacement. What Lorin thinks is a trumpet case sitting next to Tracy, turns out to be a soprano bugle, likened to a trumpet but with only two valves. To pursue Tracy, thinking love at first sight, Lorin wants to join her drum and bugle corps.
Lorin’s audition on the trumpet is, The Ave Maria, and it wins him a spot as a soloist in the horn line of the world famous Concord Blue Devils Drum and Bugle corps, playing the soprano bugle. His competition for Tracy’s heart is a former Playgirl Centerfold, Aaron Weston, from Boston, who plays cymbals in the corps and is only available to the corps in the summer, but everyone knows he has been Tracy’s boyfriend for the last three years.
During the nine months leading up to the competitive summer tour, we get to meet Tracy’s parents. Her father is a music teacher and he taught Tracy the trumpet growing up. Lorin’s father taught him the trumpet but died from hemophilia complications when Lorin was twelve. He inherited his father’s trumpet and his mouthpiece which he kept inside a worn leather case and carried it with him always.
After nine months of getting to know the bugle and the corps maneuvers on the field with the help of Tracy and her dad, the boyfriend, Aaron, arrives in Concord for the cross-country tour of competitions. Weeks before the final competition for the world championship, Lorin learns that the relationship between Aaron and Tracy is more or less platonic on Tracy’s part because Aaron’s father makes a huge donation to the corps each year and she enjoyed having a trophy boyfriend, thinking it was for the good of the corps. The corps’ Bingo Hall is the major financial support of the corps. Their profits are threatened by a new Indian Bingo Palace only eight miles away. Aaron’s father makes an additional donation to the corps and Tracy continues her relationship with Aaron.
While in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Lorin and Tracy get to be alone on a gymnasium rooftop because Aaron is in New York auditioning for an underwear commercial. It is there on the rooftop that Tracy clarifies her relationship with Aaron and they kiss and embrace for the first time. Lorin always wanted a someone whose someone was him. At the final competition in Madison, Wisconsin, Aaron deserts the corps and Tracy, to make a commercial in Hollywood and fulfill his lifelong dream to become a movie star like Tom Cruise of Top Gun.
Lorin and Tracy make their love for each other known to the entire corps and everyone in the corps applauds the fact they are finally together.
During the time following the final performance and the retreat on the field to hear the scoring of the judges, Tracy has an aneurism caused by her hemophilia and is rushed to the hospital. The corps wins the championship and Lorin rushes to the hospital. Inside the small ICU unit, Tracy tells Lorin, “If I don’t make it, will you play, The Ave Maria for me?” They lose Tracy at dawn the following morning. Lorin goes outside so the parents don’t see him cry. Once outside he sees that all the busses, the equipment truck, the motor homes and cars from the corps were lined up along the hospital curb, waiting to hear about Tracy before leaving for California. They all see Lorin walking toward the motorcade, still wearing his uniform. Lorin stops, he shakes his head from side to side and they know she is gone.
At the funeral in St. Rita’s Cemetery, on Labor Day, Lorin plays, The Ave Maria. While playing, the entire horn line and one drummer arrive and surround the coffin to play with Lorin for the second stanza. On leaving the cemetery, Lorin promises Tracy’s parents that he will come to the cemetery every Labor Day, as long as he lives, to play for Tracy. Tracy’s father tells Lorin if ever he can’t make it on Labor Day, he would play for Tracy.
In the Epilogue that follows the last chapter, it is twenty years later. The grave digger’s helper runs to the sound of the trumpet and we learn it is Lorin playing The Ave Maria. We see there are three tombstones, one for Tracy, her twin sister Maria and the twins’ father, who died one year earlier.
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