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In Reply to: RE: LA Phil best paid! posted by learsfool on July 22, 2015 at 15:38:49
Very true. Jim Walker, former LA Phil principal flutist and one of the very best players in the world, left the orchestra early on, mainly to do studio work. Another outstanding player, Paul Fried, played 2nd flute in the Boston Symphony and also left for LA to do studio work when he was very young and has been there ever since. Both nice guys.In the golden age the movie industry employed fulltime orchestras and they were at least the equal of the LA Phil. The famous Hollywood String Quartet was composed of members of those orchestras.
Edit: We should also mention Louis Kaufman. A great violinist who played with Casals, Heifetz, etc., he could have had a major concert career but chose a very well-paid, comfortable existence as the Hollywood studio's leading violinist. Probably the most recorded violinist of all time, you've heard his playing if you've seen Gone With The Wind, Psycho, and a whole lot of movies in between.
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I met trumpeter Jerry Hey in university, His goal was always to be a studio musician. Fewer hours, great pay, much less stress. After his gig with Seawind, that's exactly what he did rising to being first call in LA. Pulled in $100K easily and could have a family, working basically only days....
When I worked at Universal Recording studio in Chicago during the 60's and 70' we did a ton of national tv commercials. We used the same group of studio musicians all the time because they were talented and fast. Bonnie Herman was the lead singer on many national commercials and for quite a few years with recording fees and residuals was making one million dollars a year. Many of the others were making $250,000 to $500,000. Unfortunately the engineers were never given residuals although our union fought to get them
Alan
He may have subbed with the LA Phil, especially in earlier years, but he never took a full time position with that orchestra. He left the assistant principal position in Boston (apparently Ozawa was never very supportive of him) to be co-principal in Pittsburgh 1982-85, and has been in LA ever since. He's had a very busy career in the movies, and as learsfool discusses, has no doubt made much more money than he would have in the LA Phil full time.
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