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Definitely old school.
Edits: 04/29/21Follow Ups:
Like this one:"and nearly 70 years later, the double basses are STILL always late"LOL!
He rehearsed and guest-conducted our high school band. Actually, he couldn't have been more gracious and patient with us (although he made us four alto saxes use a felt mute. I thought it was because he didn't want any of us to tacit).But....the word got back to us from band sources in Ann Arbor that we was not impressed with our band in the slightest.
As I've said many times since....f Michigan lol.
Edits: 04/30/21
Sparty, no doubt
Um...-.of course.
MSU had their own legendary band director Leonard Falcone. He was there for about 40 years beginning in the 20s and built MSU's band program up from scratch. But of course, he was a Michigan grad. I remember seeing him at football games in Ann Arbor directing the Spartan band. He and Revelli were the best of friends, obviously.
Revelli guest-conducted our band my sophomore year.Leonard Falcone conducted my junior year. He also played the Schubert Serenade on baritone horn, accompanied by the band.
Dr. Harry Begian of Wayne State University conducted my senior year. He took over for Falcone at MSU, and later was director of bands at the University of Illinois.
Our band director at Dearborn High School, Anthony Russo, was well-connected I guess. He also gigged around the Detroit area and played trombone in the Detroit Concert Band under Leonard B. Smith.
Edits: 05/01/21
Yes, Falcone was a baritone virtuoso and was almost as well known for that than he was for being a band director.
Begian, another Michigan grad. He conducted an all star band I was in while in high school and had a reputation of being one of the tyrant-types, so everybody was nervous. He must have still been at Cass Tech at the time,but was already famous among band aficionados. I don't remember the experience too well except we played one of Vaughn-Williams's pieces, maybe Sea Songs. He was firm and no-nonsense, but not extremely so.
I can't remember too much of the repertoire we played. I do remember Revelli conducting the overture from La Forza del Destino though.
I played under a conductor almost as bad as Toscanni,legendary band director William D.Revelli, who, not incidentally, was another volatile Italian - at Michigan.
There's one guy out here I know who played under him too!
Revelli's high school band at Hobart.
He's got a lot of good comments too - I love this one: "I played it with the band in the fall of [Revelli's] '68/Bandorama concert. I remember he made all the woodwinds play the coda individually - one by one at a rehearsal. Chilling." ;-)
But also: "It seemed he [Revelli] sometimes took pleasure in ridiculing individuals, esp. when there were others to witness it. I always felt embarrassed for his poor victims. I often wondered if he was even aware of how unnecessarily mean he could be. He could also be incredibly clownish and fun, but most never saw that side. Despite all that he was bigger than life and playing in the Symphony Band was a religious experience for me and many others."
And, sorry. . . I know I've posted this before (but at least it was a long time ago!), but here's a performance uploaded by maestrojimbo of the Poulenc 2-Piano Concerto with yours truly playing Piano II in this particular performance. (maestrojimbo is conducting the orchestra.) I believe I'm still legally bound not to reveal who is playing Piano I here! ;-)
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Sounds great to me.
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