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# Drunk silenced a gifted musician
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/drunk-silenced-a-gifted-musician-editor/
- Published: 2007-04-17T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:35:14.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Dora B. Krakower*

A few weeks ago, I drove along PCH to attend a celebration at the Calamigos Ranch. It was a challenge because I have not driven along the highway for many years, nor had I ever been at the ranch. I kept my distance from the speeding cars along the PCH turnoff, Kanan-Dume, the curving road en route to the ranch, and returned hours later, successfully undaunted by the zooming drivers. We enjoyed the return homeward and commented about the structures and turnoffs on either side of the road. I pointed out the Bay Club Drive. A few days later, a car crash would occur at that site. Tragically, a father and son were killed. I had never met the father (Bob Clark), but I had met his son, Ariel (Hanrath-Clark), a wonderfully gifted musician. Ariel had computer-printed my handwritten adaptation “Cantique,” from the Song of Songs to Debussy’s Clair de Lune. Ariel reflects both the lyrics and melody of “Cantique.” I had asked “Ariel” about his name, which intrigued me. He said his parents had named him after a character in one of Shakespeare’s plays, “The Tempest,” where “Ariel” is a free spirit.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 17, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/041707.pdf?ref=smdp.com)