Klarinet Archive - Posting 000575.txt from 1998/03

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: re:schools
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 15:05:29 -0500

Well, I misspelled David's name in an earlier post. ;)

Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 08:06:29 -0600 (CST)
From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
Subject: re:schools

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, David C. Blumberg wrote:

> Shifrin although he studied at Curtis was also a Marcellus student. David
> N. got the Cincinatti job, not Cleveland. Another Curtis grad, Michael
> Russinek -won the Phila. Principal audition. Then there's Burt Hara -
> another Curtis grad. All Montanaro students. Russinek was shaped (and was
> already a finished product) by Abe Galper.
> Curtis is one of the ultimate schools - IF you make it.

Thanks for the corrections, David. Somehow I thought Shifrin
had studied with Gigliotti. Hopefully the point of my example
was perceived despite the slip-up in accuracy. How embarrassed
I feel to have given Dave Neuman the wrong job!

Neil