Word: clarinet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Currently, Pappenheimer is a Fellow of Kirkland House. When the members of the House heard of his "desertion" to Dunster, the immediate reaction was "We've lost our best squash player." Another of his athletic interests is skiing. He also plays the viola and clarinet...
...Cleveland Symphony. Promptly at 9:15 p.m. last week, the members of the Concert Guild String Quartet appeared at the restaurant in white tie and tails and launched into an hour-long program of Schubert's Quartet in A Minor and Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings (with an assisting clarinetist). The audience, swirling their drinks, listened avidly...
...custody of the "Chamber Music Society of Weston, Mass." It installed itself in the Common Room and toyed with the acoustics for a while, with occasional sojourns to the beer table for lubrication. There were nine, as I recall: Dr. John C. Wells, Jr., coronet; Dr. John Merrill, clarinet; Dr. Charles Palioca (a dentist), trombone; Dr. Thomas Peebles, drums; Richard Wigginton, bass; Raymond Boshco, piano; Guy Garland, banjo; and Bob Johnson and Doug Hayward, guitars. It was like outside the Metropole, only a little warmer...
...findings: "The Sultanate has not, since 1937, possessed a band. None of the Sultan's subjects, so far as I am aware, can read music, which the majority regard as sinful. The manager of the British Bank of the Middle East, who can, does not possess a clarinet. Even if he did, the dignitary who, in the absence of the Sultan, is the recipient of ceremonial honors and who might be presumed to recognize the tune is somewhat deaf. Fortunately, I have been able to obtain, and now enclose, a Gramophone record that has on one side a rendering...
...first part of the tune, which was composed by the bandmaster of a cruiser in 1932, bears a close resemblance to a pianoforte rendering by the bank manager of the clarinet music enclosed with your lordship's dispatch. The only further testimony I can obtain of the correctness of this music is that it reminds a resident of longstanding of a tune once played by a long-defunct band of the now disbanded Muscat infantry, and known at the time to noncommissioned members of His Majesty's forces as (I quote the vernacular) Gawd Strike the Sultan Blind...