Klarinet Archive - Posting 000448.txt from 2002/05

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] A Time reference to us
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:11:57 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Leupold [mailto:leupold_1@-----.com]
>
>
> Amidst recent laments about the clarinet's disparagement in television
> commercials (MasterCard, other) comes an excerpt from the May 6, 2002
> edition of Time magazine. The article is on the heartbreaking disorders
> associated with autism:
>
> Christopher Stodgell, a developmental toxicologist at New York's Univer-
> sity of Rochester, observes that the process that sets up the brain re-
> sembles an amazingly intricate musical score, and there are tens of
> thousands of genes in the orchestra. If these genes do what they're
> supposed to, says Stodgell, "then you have a Mozart's Concerto for Clar-
> inet. If not, you have cacophony."

Chris is an interesting person... If he's the person that I remember, I
believe I met him when I was a student back at Eastman. I remember doing
several studies over at Strong Hospital where they put electrodes on my
scalp and they would play music while measuring my brain's response to what
I heard. (Fun students have earning a couple bucks!!!)

> -------
>
> Perhaps his choice of analogy bears influences from the fact that the
> Eastman Pool of Mucus is just a short blue bus-ride away from UR's River
> Campus. :-) Actually, do they still use those old blue buses for trans-
> portation between the campuses?

Nope... the Blue busses are long gone. Probably about 1994, they
switched... Transportation to and from the river campus is taken care of by
Rochester Trans. Busses. When I left in '97, they still had a few around
for just general university transportation needs.

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Freelance Clarinetist and Recording Engineer
Los Angeles, CA
benmaas@-----.com
http://www.fifthcircle.com

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