Word: oboist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their boots, fearing that NBC's juicy contracts might tempt their most prized performers. Manager Alfred Reginald Allen of the famed Philadelphia Orchestra tried to placate the NBC menace by offering the loan of his players ''at any time," including his two world-famous instrumentalists-suave Oboist Marcel Tabuteau and courtly, grey-haired Flutist William Kincaid...
...reaching for XBC contracts. A six-months-notice clause in their contracts (upheld by American Federation of Musicians' President Joseph N. Weber at a special Manhattan conference) foiled Trombonist Charles Gusikoff and Contrabassist Anton Torello. But prized Horn Player Arthur I. Berv got loose, signed up with NBC. Oboist Tabuteau and Flutist Kincaid, whose Philadelphia salaries are rumored to be in the neighborhood of $300 per week, would not say whether they had been tempted, indicated they would stay where they...
...Philadelphia Orchestra there are two onetime army officers who fought on opposite sides during the War. Both are first violinists. One is Hungarian George Beimel, the other Russian Yasha Kayaloff. Flutist William Kincaid and Marcel Tabuteau, first oboist, make a woodwind pair outstanding when the Philadelphians undertake Debussy. Flutist Kincaid trains vigorously each summer at Lake Sebago, Me. Leon Frengut, a viola player, takes his recreation at the racetracks. Samuel Lifschey, leader of the viola section, has been a six-day bicycle racer, a dentist, a pharmacist, an engineer. Yarnspinner of the Orchestra is Trombonist Eddie Gerhard. Bill Greenberg...
...insanity or congestion in the head but pain in the tongue, sometimes inducing chronic sore throat, is the oboist's occupational hazard. Wind & brass players are subject to emphysema (enlargement of the lungs). Curious readers Ire referred to "Occupational Diseases of Musicians" by Robert Pollak in the February issue of Hygeia...
...Conductor Goossens the Festival was an important milestone, one which few conductors could put behind them at 38. Goossens is a Britisher, son of a conductor and an opera singer, brother of an oboist and two harpists. At ten he left England to study in Bruges, learned to play the piano well, the violin better. Then he returned to England, began playing in Sir Henry Wood's Queen's Hall Orchestra which, when he was 18, played several of his compositions, himself conducting...