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Hometown:
Harlingen, TX and Houston TX
Education:
Bachelor
of Music – University of Houston – 1977
Attended Shepherd School of Music and Rice University
Joined
the Orchestra:
Sept. 1985
Greatest
accomplishment:
Hopefully, still waiting…
Favorite
movie: Urban
Cowboy – it's like a Coen Brothers movie– my high
school was in that Pasadena, TX setting
Who
would play you in a movie: Just
a guess- no one?
Most
memorable moment in Orchestra: Surviving
the audition process and standing for bows at the first concert
Inspiration:
Simple beauty
Best-kept secret: Once sang Dylan’s “It Ain’t
Me, Babe” at a wedding
Favorite foods: Pizza, pasta (before I went lo-carb!)
Hobbies:
Guitar,
home projects
Bad
habit: Procrastination
Three
things always found in your refrigerator:
O.J., milk, beer (waiting for me to go hi-carb)
Most
influential teacher: Trial
and Error of freelancing in my 20’s
Luxury defined: Stay in a foreign country long enough
to learn the language. We meet so many bilingual folks, I
am envious.
Books at bedside: "The Greatest Generation"
by Tom Brokaw (my Dad was a fighter pilot in WWII), "Bruneleschi's
Dome" by Ross King
Favorite
piece of music: A
well written folk song, like Tom Paxton’s “Last
Thing on My Mind”, or Mozart chamber music with clarinet
and/or horn, say,the Quintet for Piano and Winds. For horn
players, the choice is huge, because all the great composers
loved the horn. For example:
Bach loved the horn when played like a trumpet.
Mozart loved the horn with cheese.
Brahms loved the horn plain.
Beethoven loved "corni bassi" (2nd and 4th players)
Wagner loved himself and the horn.
Strauss loved himself, his father, and the horn.
Tchaikovsky painfully loved the horn.
Mahler loved horns, the more the better.
Place you'd most like to be stranded: Florence, Italy
or a nice Caribbean island
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