Gerard Schwarz writes:
I am so saddened by the passing of my dear friend Andrew Grossman. We are about the same age and played in the New York Youth Symphony when we were in high school in New York City. Andrew was an outstanding horn player.
During high school, he studied with Rudi Pulitz. Pulitz arranged for Andrew to play for George Szell after graduating from high school and Szell hired Andrew to be the assistant principal horn to Mike Bloom in the Cleveland Orchestra. Mike’s style and sound was very different from the Pulitz school and I am told, it was not a match in heaven.
After leaving Cleveland, Andrew played with the touring American Ballet Theater Orchestra where he met his wife Virginia, a member of the company. Andrew and I lost touch until Ronald Wilford became my manager.
Ronald had a great respect for Andrew and what he was able to do as a manager, especially with touring orchestras. I always felt that Andrew wanted to be like Wilford and looked to him for guidance at CAMI. I can understand that business acquaintances found Andrew difficult, but the other side of this remarkable man was always apparent to me, and his love of music and his wife was always paramount in his life.
I hadn’t seen him for quite a few years during covid until last week when he called and asked me to come by Mount Sinai hospital on the upper east side of Manhattan to check him out after having a colonoscopy. He told me, that because of his cancer, he was living on borrowed time, but he was planning on living. What a tragedy that he is gone.
Gerard Schwarz
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