Leonard Sharrow
American musician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Leonard Sharrow was one of the foremost American bassoonists of the 20th Century. Born in New York City, he joined the NBC Symphony Orchestra when it was first organized, eventually becoming principal bassoonist ; he also served in the U.S. Army in World War II. In 1951 he moved to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the invitation of then-Music Director Rafael Kubelik and served in a similar position there until 1964, when he retired and joined the music faculty at Indiana University Bloomington. He spent many summers on the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival before joining the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as co-principal bassoonist in 1977. After retiring from Pittsburgh a decade later he returned to Bloomington, and eventually relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he died of leukemia.
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- DNA extraction from nucleated red blood cells. (1990) (228)
- Growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-I measurements in high growth (hg) mice. (1991) (36)
- Milk protein typing of bovine mammary gland tissue used to generate a complementary deoxyribonucleic acid library. (1989) (32)
- Accumulation and Regulation of Elastin in the Rat Uterus (1989) (16)
- Concerto in D minor for bassoon and piano (1966) (1)
- Sonata in G [i.e. E] minor : for bassoon and piano (1968) (0)
- Vocalise opus 34, no. 14 for bassoon and piano (1977) (0)
- Concerto in F major, opus 75 for bassoon and piano (1968) (0)
- Sonata in E minor for bassoon and piano (1967) (0)
- Symphony no. 101 in D : Clock ; Symphony no. 99 in E-flat ; Sinfonia concertante in B-flat, Hob. I : 105/op. 84 (1993) (0)
- 42 caprices for bassoon (1974) (0)
- 20 melodic studies for bassoon (1966) (0)
- Sonata in C major, for bassoon and piano (1970) (0)
- Concerto in C major for bassoon and piano (1981) (0)
- Sonata no. 2 in F major for bassoon and piano (1971) (0)
- Adagio in F major, opus 115, for bassoon and piano (1986) (0)
- Sinfonia concertante in B-flat major, H. I:105 (1977) (0)
- Sonata no. 6 in B flat major for bassoon and piano (1971) (0)
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