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...sooner had the stadium season reached this amphibious end than General Manager Arthur Judson announced a shake-up among the Philharmonic's most important and highest-paid wind players. Trumpeter Harry Glantz, U.S. champion in his class, was promptly snapped up by the rival NBC Orchestra. Massive Flutist John Amans, famed for his ability to make his tootling instrument boom like a church organ, was retired, replaced by the NBC Orchestra's Pennsylvania-born John Wummer. World's champion French Horn Player Bruno Jaenicke, suffering from a heart ailment, prepared to spend the rest of his career...
Later Turkey canceled a concert, having heard that several of the musicians, including two violinists and a flutist, were Gestapo members...
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...
Walter Piston: Suite From the Incredible Flutist (Boston "Pops" Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler conducting; Victor: four sides). Newly thawed from the Kulturbolschewist morgue, Harvard's Composer Piston kicks up his heels in one of the deftest, most scintillant ballet scores ever penned by a U. S. composer...
...Rimsky-Korsakov *Scherzo from the Octet Mendelssohn *Overture to "The Bartered Bride" Smetana *"A Victory Ball" Scholling (Conducted by the composer) *Planoforte Concert No. 2 in D minor, Op. 23 MacDowell I. Larghetto calmato II. Presto glocoso III. Largo; molto allegro Soloist: Jesus Maria Sanroma "The Incredible Flutist" Piston (Dance play by Hans Wiener) Mass Wiener and his Dancers with Orchestra *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...