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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2001-03-02 02:39
Today I learned Mr.Greenspan of Federal Reserve Bank graduated Juliard
and worked as a jazz man for a while. Very surprized.
Does anyone know what is his major instrument?
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2001-03-02 19:26
It was clarinet. I don't think he went to Juilliard (psst -- note spelling) -- just Juilliard Prep.
Casting spells on Congress. Soothing overheated bulls. Cheering up depressed bears. Sounds like a true musician to me.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Terry Horlick
Date: 2001-03-04 03:48
<body BGCOLOR="#FFFF42"><p>A few weeks back Paul Harvey did a "Rest of the Story" on Greenspan. He covered the jazz musician angle very well.</p>
<p>I got this from a website on <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/reference/bios/greenspan.html">Greenspan</a>:
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<P> The son of a stockbroker and retail worker, Greenspan displayed a gift for figures at a young age, often impressing his mother's cronies by solving mathematical puzzles in his head. After high school, Greenspan studied music at the Juilliard School and accepted his first real job as a clarinet and saxophone player in a swing band. Notes ceded to numbers when, at 19, he enrolled as an economics student at New York University. In the early '50s, Greenspan, short on cash, dropped out of a doctoral program at Columbia University to become a professional economist. (NYU later conferred his Ph.D. in 1977 without a dissertation.)</P></font>
<p> I hope this helps</p>
<p>Terry
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Author: W. Brown
Date: 2001-03-04 18:22
On TV, Mr. Greenspan admitted to being a tenor saxophone and bass clarinet player.
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Author: Anji
Date: 2001-03-05 12:32
I heard that he took up economics to meet girls.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2001-03-05 15:41
Bass clarinet players don't have answers -- they have FUNDAMENTALS. Contra players have even bigger ones.
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Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2001-03-06 14:43
Gee, maybe that's where I went wrong..........I took up the bass clarinet in order to meet girls.....
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