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In Reply to: RE: Was that after your meeting with Sol Hurok? posted by rbolaw on May 09, 2016 at 07:53:34
When I played the cello in my elementary school orchestra, we toured Europe, where we played in the great halls of the continent and met with conductors such as Furtwangler and Mravinsky, and we even took a side trip out of Helsinki to meet with Sibelius! He was a bit hung over, but he seemed like a nice guy.
The whole experience was a lot of fun, except for when Beecham asked me, in kind of an ironic tone, to "keep in touch" with the rest of the orchestra!
Follow Ups:
"Sailing", "Ride Like the Wind", etc...
Knew him during the pbj days of his career too.
Now I hope this ends all of this oneupsmanship.
Now go.
KISS IT!!!
dh
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.
But my one-upmanship post is every bit as true as jdaniel's tale of meeting Nikisch at Macy's - and I even managed some gentle self-deprecation in my post (to add to its credibility)! ;-)
Broad shouldered babes from behind the iron curtain? I'm surprised.
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