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...time, readers thought that the group actually existed.) Schumann also made up imaginary women, especially during his long, arduous court ship of his wife Clara. Three of the four couples who make up the ballet (Suzanne Farrell and Jacques D'Amboise, Heather Watts and Peter Martins, Kay Mazzo and Ib Andersen) are doubtless members in good standing of Schumann's magic cir cle. The fourth pair, Karin von Aroldingen and Adam Lüders, inhabit a desperate interior world. For although Schumann's youthful pipe dreams were lightly scatty, his mind eventually disintegrated into madness...
Jaffee and his wife Kay, 42, who is the group's specialist in recorders, call the Waverly "a mom and pop operation." She does the research, he does the arranging. "Even in modern notation," Kay explains, "a piece we select will typically be nothing but a melodic line, with no sharps or flats, no tempo or dynamic markings-just a clue." How to flesh out the melody, how to pace it and color it, when to use voices and when instruments, and even where a touch of improvisation might spark things along: these are decisions Michael makes. He plans...
...highly unlikely and unwitting patrons: Arthur Godfrey and an unmusical Greenwich Village landlord. It was Godfrey's ukulele playing that first prompted Jaffee, a furrier's son, to begin strumming the guitar as a boy in Brooklyn. Later, while studying musicology at N.Y.U., he met Kay, a pianist whose landlord had forbidden her to practice in her apartment. She took up the recorder as a consolation, and Michael experimented with accompanying her on the lute. Inspired by Noah Greenberg's pioneering New York Pro Musica, they "roped in a few friends," and the Waverly Consort-named...
...Richard Kay, "whereas females had comparatively small canines." Why? Apparently the males developed their large fangs so they could battle one another for mates, establish a social pecking order and, when threatened by an outside aggressor, defend their troop-a characteristic of many modern monkeys and apes...
...also means that there was probably extensive visual and vocal communication between the member animals. Such socialization would have put stresses on them, requiring them to be more assertive, courageous and competitive than if they had lived by themselves-which in turn could have fostered brain growth. Indeed, says Kay, Aegyptopithecus' cranial capacity of about 30 cc (1.8 cu. in.) was larger, relative to its body size, than that of any of its mammalian contemporaries...