The Cleveland Composers Guild: in the beginning
Here's a very early picture of the Cleveland Composers Guild (late 1950s?) courtesy of Larry Baker, who got it from Lucile Erb. I'm not sure what the venue is, though it looks like the Cleveland Music School Settlement to me.
Back row (L to R): Fred Koch, Bain Murray, Howard Whitaker, Julius Drossin, Klaus George Roy
Front Row: Rudolph Bubalo, Jane Corner Young, Starling Cumberworth, Susan Krausz, Donald Erb
UPDATE:
I'd also sent this via email to the Guild, with the impish suggestion that the blank square in the lower left was to cover Fred Koch dropping his trousers. I got this response via email:
Glad you found some use for the picture! The date is pretty close. Maybe early 60s as Bain didn't come to Cleveland until 1959. And, sorry, the reason for the blank spot is not nearly that interesting.....I just had a label on it in the album!Best D and L Erb
Comments
Posted by: john Mclaughlin Williams
Posted on: April 3, 2008 05:44 PM
Great pic! BTW, do you know how Erb is these days?
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: April 4, 2008 08:19 AM
I last saw Don at a performance of one of his works in January. He was in a wheelchair. More I don't know, though at that age it generally amounts to "pretty good shape for the shape he's in".
Posted by: MDC
Posted on: April 10, 2008 03:16 AM
Amazing. I can't recognize Rudy without the field jacket.
Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: April 11, 2008 11:56 PM
They all look so serious, like they were deciding which horse to bet on in the ninth.
Posted by: susan miller
Posted on: July 24, 2008 03:52 PM
I found this image while researching images of Starling Cumberworth for the Cleveland Arts Prize. We have his profile (he was a winner), but no portrait. Can you help? Could we have permission to use this image? Several of those gathered are winners of the prize. You may visit the archive at http://clevelandartsprize.org/archive_year.html
Please let me know via millerbowenATadelphia.net.