Klarinet Archive - Posting 000071.txt from 1996/02

From: Michiya Nishino <mnishino@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Laura Ardan and the Atlanta Symphony
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 18:11:26 -0500

Well, after I loaned one of my female clarinet friends a copy of the
_Clarinet_ magazine about 2 years ago, her one comment was that the
tux-clad model for the Rico Grand Concert ad was "too fine to be a REAL
clarinetist..." Of course, all of us guys in the section (after all, we
were still high-schoolers) raised hell about that...

On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Marissa Jeaninne Polsky wrote:

> Don't worry about thinking that you sound sexist or anything.
> Off the top of my head, I can't think of any truly gorgeous male clarinet
> players that I've seen, but let me tell you, I saw Joshua Bell perform on
> violin about two years ago, and I kept on thinking to myself that it wasn't fa
ir
> that someone could be so musically talented and so similar looking to Tom
> Cruise.
>
> Marissa
>