Bruce Adolphe for Family Concerts
Bruce Adolphe was born at exactly midnight, which meant it was not clear whether he was born on May 31st or June 1st. That strange convergence of exactitude and confusion set the stage for his personality, although exactly how is unclear. After watching both Victor Borge and Leonard Bernstein on TV, the child Bruce began “playing piano” on the breakfast table and cracking jokes with a Danish accent. Having no choice, his parents bought him a toy piano, at which Bruce pretended to be Schroeder of the Peanuts cartoons. Soon after the toy piano was pecked apart by the family parakeet, Bruce’s parents purchased a real piano, as well as a larger bird. By age ten, Bruce was composing music, and no one has been able to stop him since. As a “tween”, Bruce studied piano, clarinet, guitar, bass, and – as a teen – the bassoon. All this time, he wrote music and improvised accompaniments to everything that happened around him, as if life were a movie in need of a score. His favorite summers were spent at the Kinhaven Music School and he loved his Saturdays at the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division. Shortly after that, he grew up and became the severely serious, terrifying, unapproachable Classical musician he remains to this day.
Biography of Bruce’s character INSPECTOR PULSE from the Meet the Music! Concert Series at Lincoln Center
Inspector Pulse was found lodged in the left hemisphere of Bruce Adolphe’s brain in 1993 during a routine cranial exam. Once removed, Pulse took on a life of his own, soon earning more than Adolphe himself. Part detective, part doctor, part spy, and part particle spectroscopy and neutrino mass research assistant, Pulse refers to himself simply as a “Private Ear.” Whereas no one raises an eyebrow at the expression private eye, many scratch their heads when confronted with the concept of the private ear. Pulse himself defines it this way, “A private eye looks for the clues with a magnifying glass, and a private ear listens for the muse with a stethoscope.”
In past seasons at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inspector Pulse investigated an intergalactic retroinversionary implosion which led to direct contact with the signature of Time itself. Before that, he discovered the fractal relationship of cauliflower to Bach’s Brandenburg concerti, invented the Steinafaxaphone, sand traveled through time in a magic metronome with the elusive Captain Tempo. Pulse has also explained the mysterious term staccato in a rather detached manner, keeping it short, of course. He also intends to blow the Big Bang Theory wide open, revealing that rhythm is the true source of the universe. Stay tuned!
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