Word: tympanists
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...Nary a tympanist, trombonist nor tuba player in the San Diego Youth Symphony complained of not being able to follow the leader. For the guest conductor wielding the baton in three Strauss pieces was 6-ft. 11-in. Bill Walton, who is supposed to be playing roundball crosstown with San Diego's Clippers. Though Walton once tootled an earnest baritone horn in junior high school, his symphony appearance signaled no switch in careers. It simply meant that the Youth Symphony, raising funds for appearances in Europe later this year, recognized that Walton on the podium is as crowd-pleasing...
...daughter of an Altoona, Pa., insurance agent, Elaine Shaffer got her first musical experience as a tympanist in her high school orchestra. "There wasn't much to do there behind the kettledrums," she recalls. "Then I noticed that the flutes were always busy, and gee, they got to play in the band at football games." She bought a flute and an instruction book and taught herself to play. Upon graduation, having become a Kincaid admirer through recordings, she auditioned for him, and was promptly enrolled as his pupil at the Curtis Institute of Music. Four years later she landed...
...sure he looked like Beethoven." Artur Rodzinski: "The kind of fellow who made the musicians give him a birthday party at his own house." Seiji Ozawa: "An audience eye-catcher. More than that I can't say about him." Well, one thing more: "He's an egomaniac." Tympanist Goodman's own weakness-or perhaps strength-is a Casey Stengelian war with words. Conductor Lorin Maazel recalls Goodman's indignation over the original acoustics in Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall: "What's the point of music played in a concert hall, if the guys...
...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...
...special citation for insubordination and vulgarity beyond the control of any conductor is in order. This to the tympanist who, juggling his sticks with the dexterity of a weightlifter, produced a sustained, and equally unwanted cannonade, the likes of which has not been heard since the retreat from Dunkirk...