Word: bassoonist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program includes three movements from Haydn's London Symphony, Beethoven's Leanore Overture No. 3, Rondo from Mozart's Bassoon Concerto (Ted Schultz, bassoonist), and Berlioz' Marche Hongroise from the Damnation of Faust...
Organ Music (Sun. 9:15 a.m., CBS). Bach's "Saint Ann" Prelude and "Saint Ann" Fugue, Dobbelsteen's Fourth Impromptu, Galliard's Sonata for Bassoon and Keyboard, No. 1. Organist: E. Power Biggs. Bassoonist: Raymond Allard...
Eighteen indispensable men got ready last week for another winter's work. They were the contrabassoonists of the eighteen big U.S. symphony orchestras. Without them, the U.S. symphonic season could not get off to a start. Though a contra-bassoonist without a symphony orchestra may be the lowest down of all musical phenomena, a symphony orchestra with out a contrabassoonist is not low enough...
...short, dignified Neapolitan named Roberto Sensale, of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Sensale first aspired to the cello. But when he applied for a scholarship at the Royal Conservatory of Naples, the only opening was a course in bassoon playing. In 1922 he joined the Philharmonic as a bassoonist. Fifteen years later, at the death of the Philharmonic's veteran contrabassoonist, a stately Anglo-German named William Conrad, Sensale moved down an octave to take his place...
When Sensale is not playing the contrabassoon he spends much of his time whittling the cigaret-shaped reeds of his 25-lb. instrument. He is interested in few extra-contrabassoon matters. Says he: "I would like better to be a playing contrabassoonist than a retired bassoonist...