Word: bassoonist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American Works for Solo Wind Instruments and String Orchestra (Eastman-Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson, with Flutist Joseph Mariano, Oboist Robert Sprenkle, Bassoonist Vincent Pezzi, Clarinetist Rufus Arey; Victor; four sides). These works, by three teachers and a recent graduate of the nourishing Eastman School of Music, are easy to hear. Wayne Barlow's oboe rhapsody, The Winter's Past, says its piece most persuasively. Others: Serenade (clarinet) by Homer Keller; American Dance (bassoon) by Burrill Phillips; Soliloquy (flute) by Bernard Rogers...
...full-time job, pays from pesos 30 ($15) to pesos 150 ($75) a month (as much as the starting salary of a government employe). Key men like four-feet-six Concertmaster Ernesto Vallejo have studied in Europe or the U.S. But most of the players, including a bassoonist who learned his instrument in a few days before his first concert, are naturally gifted natives who take to Beethoven like an Igorot to confirmation.* Conductor Zipper, also an Austrian, who fled to the Philippines from a Nazi concentration camp in 1939, arrived in Manila just in time to take up where...
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski, with Oboist Marcel Tabuteau, Clarinetist Bernard Portnoy, Bassoonist Sol Schoenbach, Hornist Mason Jones; Victor; 8 sides; $4.50). A sweet, 18th-Century woodwind "bash" (jam session), spotlighting the pure purlings and tootlings of Philadelphia's high-priced soloists...
Mozart: Concerto in B Flat Major for Bassoon and Orchestra (Ferdinand Oubradous, with orchestra conducted by Eugene Bigot; Victor: 4 sides). Mozart's tunes let Bassoonist Oubradous purl sweetly as well as boop for a laugh...