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Greenspan, a former jazz musician (he played clarinet and sax) and a disciple of free-market philosopher Ayn Rand, frequently confronts such agonizing choices. As the Clinton era drew to a close, he correctly foresaw the brewing bubble in high-tech stocks. He searched for a way to alert investors, famously referring to an "irrational exuberance" building up in the stock market. But he refused to say more, believing a sudden collapse in share prices would carry more risk than allowing the market to discover the bubble itself. The high-tech balloon continued to inflate for several years after...
...used to know how to row, just like I used to know how to play the clarinet. But the band people wisely gave me cymbals to play instead of a more complicated reed instrument. And I figured the training-barrel is kind of like the cymbals of rowing. Seemingly foolproof. How much damage could...
...major new components was that each of the band members picked up a new instrument for the album—Gardner on piano, Miller on bass and Rosenworcel abandoning his hand drums for a traditional drum set. At other points they add in banjo, clarinet and even a Jew’s harp...
Adams, who played clarinet, performed as a soloist under Yannatos’ direction at several concerts—including a 1967 performance at Carnegie Hall, where Adams is now composer-in-residence. Adams also conducted the Bach Society Orchestra from 1967-68, as well as a Leverett House Opera production of The Marriage of Figaro...
...belongings in disarray, he mentions that he hasn’t even packed. He cracks more jokes. Asked to describe his high school self, he says how he played clarinet, and also wrestled for three years: “I wasn’t very good at it. Pretty bad, actually.” Explaining his “eclectic” musical tastes, he says he likes a lot of Irish and folk music, and Hindi music as well. Commercial music, he says, feels processed and “very refined,” but English or American...