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June 25, 2005
Speechless
This hits a little too close to home:
"Every instrument has an archetype," Eric Tipler said. "Trumpet players are outgoing. Trombone players are usually jolly. Flutists can be high-strung. But the bassoon is just this quirky instrument that attracts quirky, good people."
So it was for his friends Andrew Michael Popper and Heidi Vanderbilt-Brown, who played bassoon beside each other in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in the mid-1990's. Whenever there was a break in a piece, they would chat so much that Ms. Vanderbilt-Brown, now 28, said that her musicologist father and flutist mother once asked why "the conductor didn't yell at us for talking so much."
Posted by David Richmond at June 25, 2005 12:55 PM EDT
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