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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000036.txt from 2007/11
From: "Pat McFarland" <dblereed@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Albert Goltzer
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:36:03 -0500
OR that Harold Gomberg isn't an honorary member! That's a shame!!
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From: "Philip McKenzie" <philclimb1@-----.com>
To: <doublereed@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [DR-L] Albert Goltzer
> Harold:
>
> Thanks for sharing this.
>
> Phil
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: HAROLD <harold@-----.br>
> To: doublereed@-----.org
> Cc: doublereeds@-----.org
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 5:29:41 PM
> Subject: [DR-L] Albert Goltzer
>
> Dear Lists:
> The news of Al Goltzer's passing is very ,very sad news for me
> particularly
> because he was not only my principal teacher at Manhattan School of Music,
> but my long-time musical guide,my friend in good and bad times and a
> person
> I admired not only for his musical achievements but for his good humor and
> ....humility! Many years ago I interviewed him for the IDRS magazine ,in
> one
> of his (unsolicitied) rare moments of self promotion.
> I first heard him play with the NYPhil back in the days when Pierre
> Monteux led the orchestra in a summer series under the stars of concerts
> at
> Lewissohn Stadium. I still recall his fine playing of the Beethoven
> 7th,which inspired me to try the unpredictable path of an oboe
> player,which
> has since taken me all over the world with numerous professional
> orchestras
> and as a recitalist and composer.
> During the highlight of his career,the NYPhil manager reportedly called
> him,as associate first oboe ," a rock of stability and dependibility,ready
> to step in for whatever musical emergency and occasion." And,from what
> Goltzer told me (between puffs on the pipe he used to smoke),there were
> many
> such moments.
> He was a tough teacher who told a student not what we would like to
> hear--but what should be told.Parallel to his own life style,Goltzer
> emphasized musical excellence without too much "showing off."But at the
> end
> of most lessons, there was usually time to speak shop talk about about
> pressures and difficulties of playing so many years in one of the world's
> greatest orchestras with among the finest conductors and soloists. And
> there
> was also talk of his teacher,the unique and often eccentric Bruno
> Labate--an
> oboist who in the American musical scene dominated by Tabateau--is often
> neglected or forgotten.
> Numerous times since--at his urging-- I left my hometown of New York
> City for a "little out of town experience"-- I would visit him at what was
> once his studio near Lincoln Center or at his home in Connecticut.
> Arriving
> from South Africa,Israel,Germany or Brazil or from one of the many IDRS
> conventions and entering his work studio with new music,CDs, a gouging
> machine from Italy(--"you could have purchased a better one in
> Brooklyn"),etc. I always thought I was coming to visit a type of musical
> father with something "new."But most times though,Goltzer --from his long
> experience of playing in the original "Porgy and Bess"on Broadway, or in
> the
> St. Louis Symphony or in the tough professional world of the NYPhil--had
> seen or heard it all!
> After many telephone calls and visits, I finally got Goltzer and his
> wife Doris,also a professional oboist and English horn player (NYCity
> opera), to visit an IDRS convention in Greenville,North Carolina,where I
> performed a recital(and proudly introduced "my teacher"). Like a young
> musician just beginning his career on the oboe,Goltzer loved every moment
> of
> a gathering,the persons,the recitals,and competitions for young
> persons.(And
> to think he had once insisted a double reed convention "was not for
> him"--"I
> prefer fishing").
> I was just meaning this week to send him a recording of my performance
> this year for the first time of Sibeliuses "Swan of Tuonela," which he
> himself had recorded so long ago with the CBS symphony long beforev
> computer
> and digital recording. The reason I wanted to send him my recording was
> that ---as usual when I was in need--he attended my telephone call from
> Brazil to the home for the aging (where he was being treated for illness)
> to
> give me my what turned out to be my last lesson with him.
> My only regret is that --for a lack of self promotion and knowhow in
> this field of politicking for honors--Al Goltzer, my teacher,never was
> made
> an honorary member of the IDRS.
> His humility,professionalism and good humor are qualities I have always
> admired and continue to pursue in my own professional and private life.
>
> Harold Emert
> Rio de Janeiro,Brazil
>
>
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