Tag: Philadelphia

Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr.

Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr.

Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. (February 1, 1924 – November 4, 1997) was an American writer and surgeon who wrote under the pseudonym Richard Hooker. Hornberger's best-known work is his novel MASH (1968), based on his experiences as a wartime United States Army surgeon during the Korean War and written in collaboration with W. C. Heinz. It was used as the basis for the award-winning, critically and commercially successful movie M*A*S*H (1970) Read more [...]
Fawzi Habboushe

Fawzi Habboushe

Fawzi Habboushe is the founder of the Philadelphia Doctors Orchestra The Philadelphia Doctors Chamber Orchestra's mission is to present and perpetuate symphonic music for the community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZFBkstDjgc The Philadelphia Doctors' Chamber Orchestra is a nonprofit organization made up of approximately 40 volunteer musicians. Our mission is to present and perpetuate symphonic music for the community. The orchestra was founded and is conducted by Dr. Fawzi Habboushe, Read more [...]
Dennis Novack

Dennis Novack

Dennis Novack is Rock musician and has performed @ Drexel University with many students in rock formations. As you can see in the video he is full of energy! Wolfgang, Thanks for your e-mail.  It's fun that you have put together this website!  I have been in rock bands with medical students and residents for the past 20 years.  At Drexel, we have just finished performing at our 14th annual pediatric AIDS benefit and this year raised almost $65,000.I've been traveling quite Read more [...]
Martin Heyworth

Martin Heyworth

Martin Heyworth web of works in UE - Universal Edition Medical graduate of Cambridge University (1971). Career in academic medicine (retired 2017). Now pursuing career in music, focussing on composition. After piano lessons in childhood in England, started composing at age 17 (1964). Initial works for solo piano and for small instrumental ensembles; somewhat later, a few vocal works. Self-directed musical education included reading theory, and studying and copying scores. Milestones include Read more [...]
Dean Sophokles

Dean Sophokles

(EN:) Dean Sophokles was born and raised in the Philadelphia suburbs, the son of a professional violinist mother and a dentist father. He is dentist by day and musician by night. Dean began studying both piano and violin at the age of five, and by the age of twelve, he was traveling throughout the US with a young chamber group called the Young Concerto Soloists, led by a veteran Philadelphia Orchestra member, Jerome Wigler. He studied classical and jazz piano with various well known Philadelphia Read more [...]
Philadelphia Medical Symphony Orchestra

Philadelphia Medical Symphony Orchestra

AN ORCHESTRA OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS IN PHILADELPHIA The PMSO comprises musicians from across the Philadelphia area who work in healthcare, including but not limited to physicians, nurses, researchers, students, dentists, veterinarians, and administrators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6sE6AoME6Y web wikipedia youtube - vimeo facebook - twitter - instagram work Read more [...]