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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000037.txt from 2007/11
From: Barbara Trautwein <mzeztee@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Albert Goltzer
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:58:25 -0500
OR Marc Lifschey !!!
Pat McFarland wrote:
> OR that Harold Gomberg isn't an honorary member! That's a shame!!
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 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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