Word: bassoonist
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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...
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...