Word: koo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Concertmaster Salley Koo '97 led the other musicians with her clean and superbly projected performance. Principal clarinetist Michael Rescorla '96 and principal flautist Aimee Gallardo '98 followed suit, each tossing off a note-heavy solo part with flair. Beginning with the Capriccio's first cadenza, principal percussionist Mary Kissel '99 turned heads and made jaws drop with her superhuman ability to sustain a snare drum solo...
...made many rhythmic demands that the orchestra faced with mixed results. Of the piece's five themes, only two were as compelling as the other music on the program: an angular theme for strings and a long chorale that sounded best in the brass. Once again concertmaster Salley Koo was first-rate in her frequent solos, as were the winds when they inherited the string theme. Though the performance seemed shaky except for a cadenza-heightened, wonderfully careening climax, it was still convincing...
...hope that next time Mr. Cavell will check his sources before touching a subject with such emotional resonance for so many, for he is certainly right that these movies were perhaps the major cultural event of our generation. --Gene Koo...
...KOO STARK, 40; LONDON; photographer, former actress
Before Sarah Ferguson captured Prince Andrew's heart and the tabloid headlines, there was American-born Koo Stark, a onetime soft-porn film starlet whose liaison with the prince sparked media madness in 1982. After Andrew returned from the Falklands war, the two were sighted frolicking on Mustique. Stills of a nude Koo from her notorious films were splattered across the London tabs. Koo later married Tim Jefferies, heir to a trading-stamp fortune, but the union lasted only a year. Since then she has run her own photography business. Always discreet concerning her romance with Andrew, she is reportedly...