{"id":631,"date":"2008-01-02T15:11:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T23:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/02\/a-terrible-loss\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T15:15:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T23:15:57","slug":"a-terrible-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/02\/a-terrible-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"a terrible loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

I encountered Jerome on a tour with the Super World Orchestra in 2000. He was an amazing horn player – I’ll remember his solos from Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story<\/em> for a long time.<\/p>\n

From Peter Dobrin, classical music critic, Philadelphia Inquirer:<\/p>\n

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Jerome Ashby, 1956-2007<\/a><\/h3>\n

By Peter Dobrin<\/p>\n

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Jerome Ashby<\/strong>, associate principal hornist of the New York Philharmonic and a faculty member at the Curtis Institute of Music, died Dec. 26, Curtis reports. Ashby was one of the few African-American members of a major American orchestra – not only in 1979 when he joined the Philharmonic as associate principal hornist, but also today. He was a native of Charleston, S.C., and attended the Performing Arts High School and the Juilliard School. As I’ve written before, it’s hard to measure the power telegraphed by the presence of an African-American musician in such a prominent spot. But every anecdotal hint suggests it sends a very strong signal about what’s possible in life. We’ll never know what the sight and sound of Ashby at the Philharmonic, Curtis and Aspen would have meant to budding classical musicians in the two, three or four decades by which his life was cut short.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I encountered Jerome on a tour with the Super World Orchestra in 2000. He was an amazing horn player – I’ll remember his solos from Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story for a long time. From Peter Dobrin, classical music critic, Philadelphia Inquirer: Jerome Ashby, 1956-2007 By Peter Dobrin Jerome Ashby, associate principal hornist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[115,135,2],"tags":[265,91],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-soloists-recitals","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-horn","tag-new-york-philharmonic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-ab","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5380,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/01\/new-musicians-join-symphony\/","url_meta":{"origin":631,"position":0},"title":"new musicians join symphony","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"We had a spate of auditions at the end of last season, and the results netted us three new musicians who are all now settled in Portland and playing with the orchestra.\u00a0 They are Principal timpanist Jonathan Greeney, oboist and English hornist Kyle Mustain, and violist Silu Fei.\u00a0 Here's a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "auditions"","block_context":{"text":"auditions","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/auditions\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jonathangreeney.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":400,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/26\/new-hires-at-juilliard-school\/","url_meta":{"origin":631,"position":1},"title":"new hires at juilliard school","author":"Charles Noble","date":"July 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It looks like there may be a new arms race amongst conservatories - there are some quite high profile artists included in this latest round at the Juilliard School. 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