In Wednesday’s (9/19) Baltimore Sun, Frederick N. Rasmussen writes, “Dennis C. Kain, longtime Baltimore Symphony Orchestra principal timpanist, whose career spanned more than four decades, died Saturday of colon cancer at his Hamilton home. He was 73. ‘Dennis was not only a wonderful musician and timpanist, but also a beloved member of the BSO family,’ said Marin Alsop, the orchestra’s music director. … ‘Dennis Kain’s death will cause a gap in the music world that can never be filled as he was a unique artist,’ David Zinman, who was BSO music director from 1985 to 1998, wrote in an e-mail. … ‘I will never think of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra without seeing him there.’ … Mr. Kain was a 1961 graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., and did graduate work at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied four summers at Tanglewood, and one year with Vic Firth, the noted longtime Boston Symphony Orchestra timpanist. He also studied at the Manhattan School of Music before beginning his career as a timpanist with the San Antonio Symphony and then with the St. Louis Symphony. Mr. Kain came to Baltimore in 1966 when he joined the BSO, and at his death ranked third in orchestra seniority.”
Posted September 21, 2012
