John played first the clarinet, then alto saxophone in his high school band. His first musical influence was the tenor saxophonist Lester Young of Count Basie's band. In June of 1943, after graduation ...
The soloist was the flutist Marina Piccinini, whose press biography earnestly informs us that, in addition to being hailed as “the Heifetz of the flute,” she is a “36th-generation Shaolin Fighting ...
The Russian-Ukrainian tenor Egor Zhuravskii was a splendid Tamino whose voice bloomed with fervour ... easily moving from the bleak outside where Tamino experiences ‘savage nature’ responding to the ...