Klarinet Archive - Posting 000230.txt from 1995/12

From: niethamer@-----.BITNET
Subj: Re: Re Strauss work for clarinet and bassoon
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 17:27:29 -0500

Dan Leeson wrote:

> After the performance was over (about 4 hours of hard blowing), I was
> introduced to the man by name (which slips my mind, but someone on this
> board will know who it was in a minute and I ask that person to post
> it.) He was introduced as the former second bassoonist in the Met
> orchestra who liked to come back every now and then and hear a
> performance or two.

My copy of the Duet Concertino lists "Hugo Burghauser, dem Getreuen". Is
this the name?

This is a wonderful piece, which I had the pleasure to play here ten
years ago.

Karl Bohm was the conductor who had the doors to the pit at the Met
locked to prevent the speedy New York exit by the orchestra, so that when
the orchestra was acknowledged by Bohm, there would still be an
orchestra to see!

David Niethamer

   
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