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Today, despite the downturn in prominence, the HRO is supremely respected by national music critics and Harvard administrators alike. Yannatos recalls a year when the orchestra was short on horn players, and appealed to the admissions office for help recruiting one. Officials there responded sympathetically, saying that a “jewel like the orchestra” could not be left without a horn and promptly accepted someone who fit the bill...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HRO Comes Alive | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

Just standing there in front of the microphone, Garrison Keillor has standing. Boy, does he. He is a big, weedy fellow, 6 ft. 4 in. tall, with horn-rims and a big shock of dark brown hair, snazzy in black tie and tails, red socks and galluses, and black sneakers with white stripes. When he is feeling rueful and self-mocking, which is fairly often because he is a shy man, he calls himself "America's tallest radio humorist." This, the listener is meant to understand, is the kind of hick distinction that small-town Midwesterners cherish, and Keillor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lonesome Whistle Blowing | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Neither of those facts, not even his virtuosity on the French horn, made Finch particularly special to then-Mets pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre, or even to Harvard head coach Loyal K. Park, who led the Crimson to a .727 winning percentage and five Ivy League titles from...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'BAMMA SLAMMA: The Tale of Harvard's Incredible Sid Finch | 4/13/2005 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the Mets called a press conference a week later to announce that Finch intended to quit baseball for good and concentrate on the French horn. In addition, the control on his fastball had vanished, leaving his out-pitch “an instrument of Chaos and Cruelty,” Finch said...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'BAMMA SLAMMA: The Tale of Harvard's Incredible Sid Finch | 4/13/2005 | See Source »

...double-header against Cornell, the slugging freshman phenom entered a chain-link pen surrounded by Harvard fans to prepare for a potential slide from the hot corner to the pitching mound. And whether sitting or standing, an entire audience stopped to see exactly how hard the much-heralded green-horn could bring...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Slugging Wilson Takes On Closer Role For Baseball | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

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