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 A distinguished performer and teacher, Barrows' career highlights include positions with: the Minneapolis Symphony, the Army Air Forces Band, the New York City Opera, the New York City Ballet, and the Casals Festival Orchestra, as well as teaching positions at Yale, New York University, Arizona State University, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
His personal demeanor inspired the admiration of audiences, students and colleagues. Composer Alec Wilder, who wrote many horn compositions with Barrows in mind, once said that John Barrows proved that the "impossible was possible, by possessing such exquisite taste in music as to cast a spiritual glow wherever and whenever he performed."
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