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...have roots in German-Austrian folk melody. The orchestra--particularly its excellent wind section--gave her exceptionally sensitive support with clean, sharp attacks and supple phrasing. Forrester's spirited but somewhat less exciting performance of Mozart's concert aria "Non Piu di Fiore" was complemented by a beautifully fluid clarinet solo by one of the aces of HRO's wind section, David Cass...
Margaret Duesenberry and Aldeen Zeitlin, violins; Ruth Curwen, viola; Ruth Belvin, cello; Edwin Barker, bass; Donald Lurye '75, clarinet; Douglas Wilkins '75, bassoon; and Donald Warkintin '78, french horn. Schubert: Octet, Op. 166. Nov. 10 at 3:00. To the memory of Joseph Stein...
...innovations of Beethoven and Weber and gone on to anticipate some of the expressive, warm-blooded styles that would be heard later from the leading German romantics. There is a point in the first movement, for example, when the piano becomes a discreet accompanist (arpeggios mostly) and the clarinet takes a solo: pure Schumann. The piano's entry in the second movement has a stride and harmonic ingenuity prophetic of Chopin...
Greenspan's early background hardly pointed to a career in economics. The only child of parents who were later divorced, he was graduated from Manhattan's George Washington High School, where Henry Kissinger was a fellow student. Greenspan studied clarinet at the Juilliard School, and during World War II joined a dance band (Leonard Garment, now counsel to the President, played the sax). After a year of one-and two-night stands, Greenspan decided that he would prefer to go to college. In 1948 he was graduated summa cum laude in economics from New York University. He worked...
...when he went on strike. He moved the family to Bakersfield, where he got a job and began working his way up the economic ladder to the comfortable perch of prosperous landlord. But young Earl had a keen understanding of the workingman's problems. As a teenage clarinet player, he joined the musicians' union and also worked as a freight-yard helper and truck driver...