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captainsblogI had an appointment this morning at an office where one of my longago law partners now practices. I was within seconds of getting out, and on the road to my next appointment, when their receptionist flagged me down in the parking lot to tell me that he wanted me to come back to say "hi."
Single syllables are not in dude's vocabulary. Never have been, never will be. And yet it was okay, because we spent the whole ensuing half-hour-plus(!), with his multiple-lot-Monopoly of the talk board, but not talking much at all about work, instead about his kids (and mine), and about his music passions. This was far more okay.
In particular, he's on the board of a Rochester based non-profit (which he formed) which is finally following the leads of its counterparts in Buffalo and Syracuse and establishing a Hall of Fame for the city's legendary musical performers. I guessed correctly at many of their first class of inductees, but many others were beyond my recollection or even my knowledge:
Here they bee in their entire-tee:
A building. Corinthian Hall, long demolished but across State Street from where S. and I used to practice under the same roof, and a venue which brought out crowds in the 1800s not seen like such until the Beatles came this way more than a century later.
A founder. David Hochstein, after whom Rochester's most famed performance hall for sacred and amateur music is named- and at which our now-found friend Deanna will debut her Chopin piece about two months from now.
A saddened legend. George Eastman, who endowed the city's still-going professional music venue, after founding a company nearby which, once, gave us those nice bright colors, gave us the greens of summer, made us think all the world's a sunny day.
A flautist, who plays the flute. Doriot Anthony Dwyer, the first-ever female principal chair of a major US symphony orchestra. Unlike the previous inductees, she is still with us, at the age of 90, and is expected to perform at her own induction ceremony.
A book maker. Charles Strouse, also still with us at the age of 83, who wrote the scores for "Bye Bye Birdie" and, more recently, "Annie." Ben Vereen is committed to a video tribute to him on induction night.
A friend of a Silly English Kinnnnigit. Joe English, that is. Joe played in several bands before fate struck when he answered an ad for a drummer. The ad had been placed by none other than ex Beatle, Paul McCartney, whose drummer had just quit over some disagreement and left “Wings” in a lurch with no drummer to finish recording an album. In all, English was the drummer on four Wings albums and even sang lead on one song before he left the band to follow his own path and pursue other endeavors. S. expects Sir Paul to deliver a video tribute of his own at the induction.
What, you want more? They gots rock- Foreigner's Lou Gramm, longtime Rascal Gene Cornish (scheduled to perform on induction night with his long-estranged former Rascal Felix Cavaliere)- and two inductees from the 90s band Jars of Clay. They have Rochester-born blues legend Cab Calloway- deceased, but his longtime pupil Dan Ackroyd would've promised to be there but for induction night being his 30th wedding anniversary. Classical? How about Renee Freaking Fleming?!? And jazz contributors include Paul Hoeffler, Ron Carter, and some trumpet-playing guy you may have heard of named Charles Frank Mangione. (I fully expect his pianist brother Gap, who by Chuck's own admission is more talented, to join him on the dais in the next couple of years.)
All of this goes down at the Eastman Theater on April 29th. God and major scales willing, one, two or all three of us shall join them for that celebration.
Single syllables are not in dude's vocabulary. Never have been, never will be. And yet it was okay, because we spent the whole ensuing half-hour-plus(!), with his multiple-lot-Monopoly of the talk board, but not talking much at all about work, instead about his kids (and mine), and about his music passions. This was far more okay.
In particular, he's on the board of a Rochester based non-profit (which he formed) which is finally following the leads of its counterparts in Buffalo and Syracuse and establishing a Hall of Fame for the city's legendary musical performers. I guessed correctly at many of their first class of inductees, but many others were beyond my recollection or even my knowledge:
Here they bee in their entire-tee:
A building. Corinthian Hall, long demolished but across State Street from where S. and I used to practice under the same roof, and a venue which brought out crowds in the 1800s not seen like such until the Beatles came this way more than a century later.
A founder. David Hochstein, after whom Rochester's most famed performance hall for sacred and amateur music is named- and at which our now-found friend Deanna will debut her Chopin piece about two months from now.
A saddened legend. George Eastman, who endowed the city's still-going professional music venue, after founding a company nearby which, once, gave us those nice bright colors, gave us the greens of summer, made us think all the world's a sunny day.
A flautist, who plays the flute. Doriot Anthony Dwyer, the first-ever female principal chair of a major US symphony orchestra. Unlike the previous inductees, she is still with us, at the age of 90, and is expected to perform at her own induction ceremony.
A book maker. Charles Strouse, also still with us at the age of 83, who wrote the scores for "Bye Bye Birdie" and, more recently, "Annie." Ben Vereen is committed to a video tribute to him on induction night.
A friend of a Silly English Kinnnnigit. Joe English, that is. Joe played in several bands before fate struck when he answered an ad for a drummer. The ad had been placed by none other than ex Beatle, Paul McCartney, whose drummer had just quit over some disagreement and left “Wings” in a lurch with no drummer to finish recording an album. In all, English was the drummer on four Wings albums and even sang lead on one song before he left the band to follow his own path and pursue other endeavors. S. expects Sir Paul to deliver a video tribute of his own at the induction.
What, you want more? They gots rock- Foreigner's Lou Gramm, longtime Rascal Gene Cornish (scheduled to perform on induction night with his long-estranged former Rascal Felix Cavaliere)- and two inductees from the 90s band Jars of Clay. They have Rochester-born blues legend Cab Calloway- deceased, but his longtime pupil Dan Ackroyd would've promised to be there but for induction night being his 30th wedding anniversary. Classical? How about Renee Freaking Fleming?!? And jazz contributors include Paul Hoeffler, Ron Carter, and some trumpet-playing guy you may have heard of named Charles Frank Mangione. (I fully expect his pianist brother Gap, who by Chuck's own admission is more talented, to join him on the dais in the next couple of years.)
All of this goes down at the Eastman Theater on April 29th. God and major scales willing, one, two or all three of us shall join them for that celebration.
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Date: 2012-03-10 02:57 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-03-11 01:00 am (UTC)I'm hoping the local PBS station might stream it. If they do, I'll get you linkage.
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Date: 2012-03-11 10:18 am (UTC)