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Author: rtmyth
Date: 2014-02-10 16:17
I'll be there in spirit only. Best to all.
richard smith
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Author: FDF
Date: 2014-02-10 18:36
Thanks for posting this Mark. I'm in Boca Raton for the winter and didn't know about this event. I'm sure it would be pleasurable in many ways and I'd enjoy meeting you. My wife and I have plans, but who knows....: )
Forest
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Author: ThatPerfectReed
Date: 2014-02-11 05:12
Jon and I are roughly the same age.
Many, many, many moons ago we played together in our shared (Nassau, NY) County's High School All-County Band. Jon sat first chair, and I sat second.
I remember the gentleman who sat first chair in All-NY State band that year: quite an exceptional player, but understood at the time to be second chair to Jon at Julliard Prep. So who was this Jon Manasse I asked myself.
(I was a "mere" Manhattan School of Music Prep student..shout out to another fine player there now pro: Dan Gilbert.)
(Dan, if you're out there, where's Judy Freeman these days? I know her hubby retired from the NY Phil a couple of years ago.)
Anyway, Jon and I talked a bit at All-County. He was polite and clearly very serious about his playing. It was my first exposure to someone who kept reeds in plastic bags to help stabilize them from the humdity: something I only adopted years later.
Speaking of years later, maybe only 2 years ago, I took my daughter, a cello player, to the same auditions Jon and I had to take with NYSSMA: the NY State School Music Association, to be members of such bands/orchestras. I got to talking with a mom whose daughter was there for the same reason as my daughter. Conversations turned to music of course, and no surprise most parents there took (or still take) music seriously back in High School.
Talk led to her graduating High School (Glen Cove, LI, NY), and how I only knew one person from that High School my age, who happened to play the clarinet professionally.
We both said "Jon Manasse" at the same time and began to chuckle.
Jon--if you're at there, I hope that gives you a laugh. You are quite the gifted player. Your recorded Weber Concertos represent the "standard" to me of how it's done. I wish you health, weath, and good times.
Oh, me. I majored in something I could make a living at. I was good, but no Manasse or Gilbert.
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