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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000078.txt from 2004/04

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:51:24 -0400


"...this is my favorite story about Tabuteau. One afternoon I asked him if
there was any time in his career that he thought was the high point. "Well," he
said, just like that, "When Toscanini came to conduct the Philadelphia
Orchestra in the forties and fifties--pension concerts for the orchestra, some of
which were recorded. Here was the most intense, cerebral conductor, engaging the
most romantic orchestra that had ever been developed--Stokowski's orchestra.
Toscanini in Philadelphia. Unforgettable." Then he hesitated, and looking out
over his balcony in Nice toward the mountains, and he said, "There were a few
good notes." This was the most humble thing I had ever heard a great man say
about his life."

-Joseph Robinson, Principal Oboe, New York Philharmonic Orchestra
"Career Choices and Music Advocacy: Joseph Robinson Talks with Nora Post"
The Double Reed, Volume 22: 1999

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