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Hometown:
Decatur, IL
Joined
the Orchestra:
1970
Favorite saying: “Hold on…”
Greatest
accomplishment:
Having and raising my son Christopher
Favorite
movie:
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?”
Who
would play you in a movie:
George Carlin
Most
memorable moment in Orchestra: Bach
B Minor Mass with Robert Shaw
Inspiration:
Henry
Loew, first teacher
Best-kept secret: ask my wife
Hobbies: walking, woodworking, being by the ocean
Bad habit: too much Geraldo Rivera
Three things always found in your refrigerator: veggie
cheese, Haagen-Daz, Grolsch beer
Most influential teacher: Henry Loew
Luxury
defined: being
in a condo in Hilton Head
Books
at bedside:
More Geraldo…
Favorite
piece of music:
Bach and Mahler
Place
you'd most like to be stranded: right
by the ocean
Playing
a Gabrielli 1750 double-bass, Ralph has been a member of the
Tulsa Philharmonic, Santa Fe Opera, and Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestras; before joining the ASO eight years ago. A graduate
of the University of Tulsa, Ralph studied with Henry Loew
of the St. Louis Symphony and Lew Norton, of the New York
Philharmonic; he received a fellowship for the Berkshire Music
Festival at Tanglewood in 1966.
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