In Reply to: OK! Excellent! Game on! posted by Chris from Lafayette on May 9, 2016 at 09:52:38:
My stories about Fennell and Stokowski, while not overly impressive, are 100 percent true. A better one, which I believe I've told here, is that my uncle, an amateur violinist who passed away early this year at the age of 92, may have been the last surviving musician to play under the baton of Frederick Stock, who conducted the Chicago Symphony from 1905 until his death in 1942. My uncle was playing in the University of Chicago student orchestra and Stock conducted them for a concert. It didn't go well, at least by Stock's standards, and he made them stop and start over at one point.
My father, who was then studying violin with Wolfe Wolfinsohn at the Longy School of Music in Boston, had the chance to turn pages for David Oistrakh's pianist at Symphony Hall during Oistrakh's famous first US tour. Being too chicken (as I would have been), he declined. But he did attend one of Oistrakh's concerts.
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- Game on? - rbolaw 11:34:13 05/09/16 (1)
- Oops! Sorry about the placement of my reply - Chris from Lafayette 21:37:01 05/09/16 (0)