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Artist Fischer, 46, is a little man with rosy cheeks, a ready laugh and a happy family (two girls and a boy). He lives in a farming village overlooking Lake Zurich, spends his free days sketching in the woods and fields, fishing, and tootling a clarinet when evening falls. He has painted 14 school murals in the past few years, finds the work a welcome antidote to "the eternity complex which may befall an artist and cramp his style...
...Concerto No. 1. Vox's interpretations are more rugged and, in the low-toned No. 6, merrier. Standout performer: the Vanguard trumpeter, who tootles his sky-high part in No. 2 with insolent ease. Vox says it used a "clarino" for the part, which sounds more like a clarinet than a trumpet...
...secretary of the Crystal Palace and first director of the Royal College of Music. - And sometimes quaint. Samples: "Charles,? ('Mr. Charles') b. ?, d. ?. Prob. Hungarian 18th-century horn player and clarinettist. He is a shadowy but important figure, since he was the first named performer on the clarinet in the British Isles." "ZUFFOLO. In modern Italian, the name for the tin whistle. [There is] no reason for concluding, as some have done, that [the] zuffolo was a small shawm...
...Roger B. Lustrand, a bachelor, "having discovered that most of the children on his Christmas list possess large collections of such records as Quacky Clarinet and Otto the Ophicleide*. . . makes a habit of bringing them LPs of the most recondite sort of music: Schoenberg, neoclassic Stravinsky, or Varèse ... A few of the modern parents in Roger's circle actually rear their children on such music. For them, Lustrand thoughtfully provides a present of the Terry the Timpani variety, the most banal he can find, which inevitably becomes the favorite item in the nursery library...
Many of the 115 alumni who are expected to participate in today's festivities were there, singing their old clarinet or tuba parts, clinking beer cans in accompaniment. They included Frederick L. Reynolds '20, director and organizer of the first band...