Word: oboist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frightening efficiency," although they found his Berliners, by comparison with Beecham's Royal Philharmonic, slightly drab. Some found fault with his Mozart "Jupiter" (too dull). But after Roy Harris' brassy Third Symphony and Goossens' own Oboe Concerto (written for and played by his brother, the great oboist Leon Goossens), they had to admit that "the results [of his efficiency] certainly [were] confirmed a hundredfold...
Vaughn Williams: Concerto for Oboe and Strings (Mitchell Miller, oboist, with the Saidenberg Little Symphony, Daniel Saidenberg conducting; Mercury, 5 sides). England's Ralph Vaughn Williams composed this well-made, sweetly pastoral music during World War II. Vaughn Williams (with the expert help of Soloist Miller) makes even five sides of oboe pleasant to take. Performance: good. Recording: good...
...Hospital Suite was also written by a doctor: Philadelphia's Dr. Herman M. Parris. Manhattan's 70-piece Doctors' Orchestral Society had its usual professional troubles rehearsing it: the oboist-obstetrician turned up late the evening he delivered three babies; the clarinetists and violinists were occasionally called out on emergencies...
...first the skeptics said, as Samuel Johnson said of a dog walking on his hind legs: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." In Zurich, an oboist tested Pierino by deliberately playing a false note during rehearsal. The bambino stopped the orchestra, sternly told the oboist to get back on the track...
They finally got to Brussels and put on a concert at the famed Palais des Beaux-Arts-whereupon Oboist Evelyn Rothwell (in private life Mrs. John Barbirolli) fell off the Beaux-Arts' modernistic stage and injured her arm so badly she couldn't play. Undaunted, Conductor Barbirolli led his forces into the teeth of the German advance, twice a day played items like Wagner's Rienzi Overture and Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik for cheering servicemen at Eindhoven and Ghent, and squeezed in a few extra concerts for Belgian civilians. At week...