Edwin
When did you attend Berklee? A very good friend of mine who was a trombonist and who I played with for a good number of years attended from 1973-1977. Based on the conversations I had with him his experiences were similar to yours.
Hammer
I graduated in '85. The recital in question was on leap year day, 1984, the year of George Orwell. I'll describe the scenario sometime when I'm not so tired. It was a scene. But we got our revenge at the Berklee Performance Center with some even more outrageous shenanigans a year later.