‘I’m still here:’ CSO’s principal flutist Richard Sherman honored with Michigan State University’s William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award by Jamie Landers on August 15, 2020 share Richard Sherman, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra’s Rita and Dunbar VanDerveer Symphony Principal Chair for Flute, is a self-described “romantic-pragmatic.” Sherman “I think anyone who is an artist lives life with their head in the clouds as