Word: oboist
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...type. Each, like exuberant Clarinetist Jerry Kirkbride, must be of soloist caliber yet have the temperament that prizes subtle, intimate musical expression over the splashy sound and bravura display of solo and orchestral work. Each, whether he is naturally lighthearted, like Flutist Karl ("Fritz") Kraber, or intensely dedicated, like Oboist Charles Kuskin, must have the empathy to take a tempo from a nod or a cue from a raised eyebrow...
Levine favors sporty clothes (he conducted one recent Ravinia concert in dark blue bell-bottoms and matching polo shirt) and is so relaxed that he can indulge in one of his favorite pastimes, eating, even during intermissions. Aside from his steady girl friend, a Manhattan oboist, he has no organized nonmusical interests except the Navajo rugs and dinosaur bones that he collects for his apartment overlooking Central Park. Says he: "I feel there is enough scheduling in a musician's life that I try not to regulate the other things...
Somehow the best undergraduate musicians find each other for chamber music. The quartet at Holmes Hall next Tuesday has some of the best players in the College. They are joined by Fred Fox, an excellent oboist who has remained at Harvard with Bryce-like tenacity...
...orchestra including an extremely flashy violin variation played by Robert Portney '74. The rest of the orchestra's personnel includes members of the tennis, lacrosse, swimming and baseball teams, an ex-conductor of the Bach Society, the daughter of a world-famous harpsichordist, a former House Master, an oboist who does remarkable animal imitations, and, pound for pound, the greatest tympanist in the world. This unusual aggregation will be conducted by Martin Kessler '71, who was quoted as saying, "don't miss this...
...does not produce many either. An oboist, brilliant pianist and sometime composer ("mostly for myself"), Thomas has been conducting professionally since the age of 20, when he became the leader of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra in his native Los Angeles. Since then, he has worked as an assistant to Pierre Boulez at Bayreuth and California's Ojai Festival, rehearsed the orchestra for the famous Heifetz-Piatigorsky concerts. If Thomas seems to enjoy the performing aspects of conducting, that is natural. His grandfather, Boris Thomashefsky, was a founder of the Yiddish theater in New York. His father...