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Stanley Hasty Obituary
Rochester: Stanley Hasty is survived by his wife, June Hasty; daughter, Jill Wilkerson; son, J. Douglas Hasty; and daughter, Jaqi Hasty, and her husband, Walter Berger. Stanley was predeceased by his youngest daughter, Daryn Hasty. Also surviving are four grandchildren: Schuyler and Carlin Hasty, and Tristan and Ariel Berger.
Born February 21, 1920, Mr. Hasty pursued a long and distinguished career as a clarinetist and teacher. From 1943 until 1955 he served as principal clarinetist and soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. During that time he also taught at Indiana University in Bloomington and Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore. In 1955 Mr. Hasty joined the faculty of the Eastman School of Music and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra where he served as principal clarinetist and soloist until 1970. During this time he also taught at the Juilliard School and the New England Conservatory of Music. Mr. Hasty retired from the Eastman School of Music in 1985 and continued to travel throughout the United States, Canada, and many other countries as recitalist, lecturer, clinician, and adjudicator.
Mr. Hasty was an avid reader and attended library events regularly. He was involved in his church and enjoyed the company of friends playing bridge. He was a skilled carpenter and cabinetmaker, including building a grandfather clock, building and flying model airplanes, and building a cabin in the Adirondack Mountains where he played at the Lake Placid Club during the summers of his youth. He was happily retired and was a devoted husband, father, and grandfather, and a wise, gentle and generous man.
Mr. Hasty succumbed on June 22, 2011 as the result of injuries sustained in a June 4th automobile collision.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, August 6, at 11am at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Rd, Rochester 14607.
In lieu of flowers please donate to the Saint Paul's David Craighead Organ Restoration Fund.
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for Stanley Hasty
Michael Dumouchel
June 27, 2011
Mr. Hasty made every student he had contact with play the clarinet to their fullest potential, but what he was really teaching was how to be a person.
Ingrid Bock
June 27, 2011
Mr. Hasty was a legend when I was at school at Eastman, and his students loved him. All over the world there are clarinetists who will always think of him with love and gratitude, and who will tell their own students about him and pass on his legacy. I hope that gives comfort to his family.
June 27, 2011
Mr. Hasty was such an important person in the musical and personal lives of so many of us. I will always be grateful for his generosity of spirit, musical and personal wisdom and joyful dedication to the arts of clarinet playing and teaching.
My heartfelt sympathy extends to all of his family especially, and to those of us who were fortunate enough to have him as teacher. He will remain in our hearts.
David Harman (DMA, ESM '74)
Antoine Clark
June 27, 2011
So glad to have met you. Thank you for all that did for the clarinet and music world
Marty Burlingame
June 26, 2011
He was as important as a parent in the lives of many of his students. The feelings of loss, love and gratitude are beyond expression.
Jonathan Levine ESM '61
June 26, 2011
"Wise, gentle, and generous" are totally accurate. I will forever remember him as a great musician and the finest teacher I ever had of any subject.
Kathleen Crotty
June 26, 2011
My prayers are with you and your family. My uncle(Robert Mogilnicki)
before he passed would tell me "orchestra" stories of his time. I
continue to perform on clarinet and only regret that I never had the
opportunity to study with him. His legacy lives on in all the many musicians across the country.
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