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In Reply to: Re: Last night at Severance Hall posted by Square Peg on February 3, 2007 at 12:45:13:
I think many of the players that Maazel and Dohnanyi had are still there. I just looked at the roster not long ago. John Mack is no longer and passed away if I am not mistaken last year.
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I couldn't say.But the list of those who made the Cleveland great and are now dead or retired is long:
Robert Marcellus, Clarinet
Myron Bloom, French Horn
Bernard Adelstein, Trumpet
Bernard Goldschmidt, Violin, ass't Concertmaster
Rafael Drurian, Violin, Concertmaster
John Mack, Oboe
Donald White, Cello
Merritt Dittert, Bass Trombone
Maurice Sharp, Flute
Clyde Duff, Tympani
Twyla Tharp, HarpThose are just from memory. I saw no familiar faces at all. The only name I recognised on the program was Joella Jones. Years pass and things change and it won't be too long before their students (I am one) are gone as well.
Hopeful signs for the orchestra and classical music were the youth of both many of the performers and the audience. And that the Ireland and Ratner families have taken a leading role in establishing an endowment and new business model for the orchestra.
Which brings me to an amusing thought I had while waiting for the light at Bellflower and Euclid on the way home only Clevelanders will appreciate: Jews turn left, Gentiles right (no, nothing to do with politics)!
Really? What was her era?The only Twyla Tharp I know is the modern dance choreographer/director.
I don't doubt what you say BTW. I still cherish the old Clevalnd recordings. I haven't heard them live in 30 years.
Can't explain how Alice Chalifoux became a choreographer.I shouldn't drink and Direct Drive.
'The beatings will continue until morale improves'
many of those guys are who taught me how an orchestra should sound. I think Jones husband and many of the string players remain. But the names you typed would be over 75 years old in most cases.I heard the Dohnanyi/Ashkenazy/Page/Jahja Ling/Michael Stern group often live. Pre renovation. And I heard the 2000 orchestra play the concert which opened the Carnegie Hall guest artists season that year, and which played on PBS (Schumann 2nd symph/Brahms PC 2 with Pollini). Good seats that time, about 15 rows back on the orchestra about 5 seats to the right of center. I thought the orchestra did well indeed, but have no comparison to a live Szell band except by records and WCLV archives.
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