Word: clarinets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...private personality, this sense of humor is largely hidden to the public behind the cool demeanor and clipped words that symbolize the public Bok. There is much else that is hidden as well--for instance the fact that he once had such a talent for the clarinet that he could have, according to a close friend, made a living from...
...former Stanford basketball star and clarinet player was reluctant for the first seven or eight years to use the pulpit of the Harvard presidency to address the nation. But with the publication of his 1982. "Beyond the Ivory Lower: Social Responsibilities of the Modern University," annual reports on the legal and medical professions and other public ruminations on different topics. Bok is widely considered the prime spokesman for higher education in America, challenged perhaps only by Notre Dame's President, the Rev. Theodore Hessberg. "I have the highest possible admiration for Bok," says Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti...
...found doing music for theater you can try different things and do unusual things and people will come and hear it and pay attention." But after sophomore year, he became tired of the theater scene. At the end of his Junior year, he performed a solo clarinet concert that featured classical works, as well as Tibetian and Japanese music, improvisation, and jazz. Last fall, at Currier House, he put on "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" a play he wrote the music for based on Tibetan religious beliefs in reincarnation. "It was a real opportunity to combine what...
...last part gains force and builds to a rocking theme with the horns playing a theme of success, or victory which recurs several times on the album it sounds almost like the theme at the end of a western. The high flute with a synthesized back ground, a low clarinet, and flowing strings with piano portray a beautiful image of an "Earth Rise," (described "The most pleasant of all occupations on Levania is the contemplation of its volva...
...Orleans in the mid-'60s, he was saying hello to a widely regarded jazz pianist, Ellis Marsalis, who was playing behind Al Hirt. Marsalis had a little boy of six named Wynton at home, and Wynton had an older brother named Branford, who was playing both clarinet and piano by the time he reached second grade. Feeling a few faint nudges of paternal concern that Wynton not fall behind in the musical Futurity Stakes, Ellis hit Hirt for an advance to finance the purchase of a trumpet. "Don't get that boy no trumpet," Davis interrupted...