Word: alto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Marriage, and training in tooth repair and extraction at Temple University, soon followed, with Stan sitting in with this band or that to earn some money while he learned his trade. Stan plays alto sax, clarinet and flute. For a few weeks in 1939, he actually played with the Glenn Miller. And before his education was done, he had also played with Jack Teagarden and Maynard Ferguson. Then for 38 years he was a dentist and anesthesiologist in Hempstead, on Long Island. He produced two books, Amnesia-Analgesia, Techniques in Dentistry, and Pain and Anxiety Control in Dentistry, neither...
MAGAZINE:Jennifer L. Mnookin '88 of Adams House are Palo Alto, California, Magazine Editor. Maia E. Harris '88 Adams House and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Magazine Editor Jefferson S. Chase '88 of Adams House and Crabapple Cove Maine, Associate Magazine Editor...
...Palo Alto, Ca. yesterday visiting Stanford, said, "I find many things attractive about Harvard especially the quality of the intellect there. The programs and academic opportunities here would be quite stimulating...
...choir has been building all month toward an evensong for All Saints. On the big afternoon, they assemble for a final rehearsal. Nothing goes right. The choir's attempt at a Nunc Dimittis produces dissonance and glances of distress. Some heretic in the alto section sings "Holy Spirit" when everybody else is singing "Holy Ghost." Twice Barber loses his place...
Then the evensong begins, with the choir in blue robes and white cottas. They sing intensely about a voice from heaven, and as they intone the words "Blessed are the dead, blessed are the dead . . ." bass, tenor, alto and soprano seem to wheel around one another, in an eerie polyphony that rolls across the congregation...