As I got to know him better, I never thought that he would join the young Africans undertaking perilous journeys to seek new starts in faraway lands.
In particular, the quartet will be remembered for its recording of the complete Haydn string quartets (the project was the main incentive for Hurwitz to join the group), an undertaking completed in 1976, since when it has reappeared on CD, over 22 discs.
It took part in the ecumenical movement, joined the World Council of Churches, undertook dialogue with other Christian churches, and entered full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Siemens, frustrated with the skills and knowledge among their graduate applicants, has developed its own "future-proofing" training scheme that everyone joining the firm undertakes.
It already has what is known as a "tracking mechanism" whereby it follows the stage-by-stage approach to joining the EU undertaken by other fuller-fledged Balkan countries.
Of all the reforms Turkey is being asked to undertake to join the European club, none would transform it as deeply as asserting civilian authority over the generals.
A council memorandum asserted that the EU was right to help given that the closures had been pushed through during these countries' negotiations to join the EU: "Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia undertook to close and subsequently decommission the abovementioned nuclear reactors.
The more recent members who joined the EU after the Cold War -- Poland, Hungary and other Central and East European countries -- are adamant that the economic reforms that they undertook to join the EU were conditional on maintaining the principle of freedom of migration.
As part of the process to join the EU, these countries had to undertake a range of reforms to their economic and judicial systems.
On Monday the finance minister announced that eight public service departments would join the departments of health and education in undertaking "functional reviews" to identify efficiency savings.
The fiscal discipline required of nations before being allowed to join the European Monetary Union forced many of them to undertake painful but necessary reforms.
