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when the brass section blew in full fortitude. Now, in 1946, it became six to eight pieces; very loose, very improvised, and great fun” (reprinted in Bowdoin Magazine , Fall 2014, p. 39).
When at Bowdoin, Young led the Polar Bears dance band, playing trumpet and tenor sax. A fellow classmate, writing in 1946, remarked that “We called him ‘Phip’ in the jazz-speak argot of the day … During the summer of 1942 the Polar Bears had fielded an organized, disciplined, and powerful twelve pieces that could make the walls lean out
in 1991. For many years he played bassoon in the Victoria Symphony Orchestra. Young’s research on historical woodwind instruments earned him an international reputation and many awards” ( The Canadian Encyclopaedia ). The Phillip T. Young Recital Hall at University of Victoria is named in his honour.
The Taft School (Watertown, Connecticut) as director of instrumental music, serving 1962–5 as chairman of the Department of Music. He taught 1965–9 at the School of Music, Yale University, before moving to the University of Victoria, where he was chairman 1969– 77 of the Department of Music. He then continued to teach at the University of Victoria until his retirement
Phillip Taylor Young (1926–2002) was a native of Milton, Massachusetts. After service with the US Army Air Force in World War Two he studied music at Bowdoin College (BA 1949) and later at Yale (M MUS 1962). “He studied bassoon with Bernard Garfield, Harold Goltzer, and Robert Bloom, and conducting with Gustav Meier. In 1949 Young joined the faculty of
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