Stanley Hasty

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.

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.

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)

So glad to have met you. Thank you for all that did for the clarinet and music world

"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.

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.