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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000011.txt from 2005/03

From: Rhondda May <rmay@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Re:Stravinsky Danses Concertantes query
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 16:56:01 -0500

Robert Bloom played in the "Columbia Orchestra" in its East Coast
incarnation; but I seem to recall that there was also a West Coast
entity, and I don't know who played in that incarnation.
It should say, however, where the recording was made, which would
further narrow it down.

On 2 Mar 05, at 9:36 AM, Jackie Kovach wrote:

> Although I can't be sure, it seems to me that the oboist in most of
> the recordings of the Columbia Orchestra was Robert Bloom. I can
> easily stand to be corrected.
>
> Jackie
> On Mar 1, 2005, at 7:38 PM, h.micklem@-----.uk wrote:
>
>>> doublereed Digest 1 Mar 2005 20:15:00 -0000 Issue 477
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>>> Topics (messages 1469 through 1469):
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>>> Re: Stravinsky Danses Concertantes query
>>> 1469 by: Jennifer I.Paull
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>>> On Monday, February 28, 2005, at 06:03 pm, h.micklem@-----.uk wrote:
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>>>> Greetings -
>>>>
>>>> I've just been listening to an old recording of Danses
>>>> Concertantes by=20=
>>>
>>>> Robert Craft with the Columbia Orchestra (under the supervision
>>>> of=20
>>>> Stravinsky, according to the insert) and am curious about the
>>>> oboe=20
>>>> sound. Can anyone tell me who was playing on that recording and=20
>>>> whether the sound was usual for that player? I started off
>>>> disliking=20=
>>>
>>>> the sound, but then began to think that it really suited the
>>>> character=20=
>>>
>>>> of the piece ; so I wonder whether it was something that=20
>>>> Craft/Stravinsky asked for particularly.
>>>>
>>>> Spedding Micklem (playing it next week end and wondering whether
>>>> to=20
>>>> try for something similar)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Dear Spedding,
>>>
>>> I really believe that the purpose of playing is to say
>>> something and interpret in your own way, that which
>>> the composer wrote and the conductor encourages to
>>> hang together (!).
>>>
>>> We cannot suppose what happened at this recording,
>>> whether or not the oboist in question was admired or
>>> tolerated - whether all good cane was lost in the
>>> flooding of Fr=E9jus or whether this morsel was the stuff
>>> of everyone's dreams (or nightmares).
>>>
>>> The fact that you have heard and admired it will
>>> cast a hue upon your own interpretation. May I suggest
>>> therefore, that you simply play as yourself? In so
>>> doing, you will be your own original, tinged with an
>>> appreciation of things passed. Isn't that what we
>>> should be doing for everything we play?
>>>
>>> I hope very much that you enjoy your concert.
>>> With best wishes from the Polar wastes of central
>>> Europe,
>>>
>>> Jennifer
>>
>> Thanks, Jennifer, for your wise, though perhaps a tad patronising,
>> words. Having been playing for more than 50 years I shall probably do
>> it like myself whatever happens. However, I don't always need to make
>> the same sound, use the same vibrato or whatever, and since this
>> interesting recording exists I would STILL like to know who was
>> playing, etc, if anyone can tell me. Thus might I be better "tinged
>> with an appreciation of things past" :-).
>>
>> Spedding
>>
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