Sunday, May 09, 1999
Lullabies next on CSO playlist
BY JIM KNIPPENBERG
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Don't know what, but something has Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra members all heated up. Too many Boleros, maybe.
Turns out in the past nine months, nine musicians and two staffers have produced 12 babies. They turned up on stage at Music Hall Friday for photos and noises considerably less melodious than the norm.
Except for principal flute Randy Bowman, wife Dorothy Han and Jack Connor (Aug. 12), they were all there.
There was librarian Mary Judge toting twins Madeline Carol and Isabelle Lynn (Dec. 3). Michael Chertok, keyboards, and Brook were there with Maria (Sept. 4).
So were French horn player Thomas Sherwood and Tamera with Olivia Joy, born Oct. 23 while the CSO was in Japan. He's the one who spent five hours on the phone from Shizuoka, coaching Tamera through delivery.
Also: The all-CSO family of first violin Luo-Jia Wu and wife Chika Kato, second violin, with Emi (Nov. 3), who doesn't play anything yet.
Lest anyone think they're finished: Denisse Rodriguez-Rivera, viola, was due Thursday but is in a holding pattern.
Might be time to cool it with Bolero, 'eh?
WHAT A DISH: Hmmm. Anyone wondering why there was a camel outside Tiffany's Thursday afternoon?
Maybe to buy that $6,800 tiara they have in stock?
No. It was because Zoo education director Thane Maynard was showing people how to set a table.
Huh?
It's a Tiffany tradition, says manager Suzanne Halmi: The store invites local celebs to work with Tiffany designers to come up with a table setting that reflects the interests of the celeb.
Maynard's table was unveiled at a party Thursday to which he brought a camel, macaw and serval. Sounds like a bad blind date.
About 30 guests sipped champagne and ooohed and aaahed the table: It was a tribute to his passion — bird watching — that he created with the help of Tiffany designer Lori Stenger.
The china is hand-painted Jardin ($1,300 a setting) with birds and turtles from an old Tiffany pattern. The flatware ($610 a setting) is an 1870 pattern inspired by Audubon. There are also bird eggs, a vase full of feathers, carved birds and rain forest plants.
Not the table you'd set for bean and weenie casserole.
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