Klarinet Archive - Posting 000182.txt from 1997/01

From: Donald Yungkurth <DYungkurth@-----.com>
Subj: Boston Pops (was Harold Wright??)
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 16:56:37 -0500

GREG BAKER asked,

>Who was the principal clarinet palyer in the Boston Pops >during the Fiedler
years? I just found a really good >recording of the "Freischutz" overture
with Fiedler and >the BPO, and the solo has that "Harold Wright sound" (cut)

Karl Krelove responded,

>(cut) I've always heard the principals didn't play the Pops >most of the
time. It would probably have been the >associate (or assistant) first. A name
that sticks in my >mind is Peter Adcock, though I'm really not sure at all.
In >any case, Gino Cioffi was the principal clarinetist in Boston >until 1970
or 71, so Wright might not have been there yet >when your Freischutz
recording was made.

I have a fine Gershwin recording with pianist Earl Wild and the Boston Pops
under Fiedler which, unfortunately, does not list the recording date. It
does however list the clarinetist in "Rhapsody in Blue" as Pasquale Cardillo.
He does a great job of the solo, but it isn't exactly the ideal place for me
to judge if he has the "Harold Wright sound".

Peter Hadcock played Eb with the Boston Symphony, apparently from about 1965,
according to dating in his book, "Orchestral Studies for the Eb Clarinet".
He might well have played in the Pops and was a marvelous Bb player as well.
I heard him perform on Bb a few years ago here in Rochester after his
retirement from the BSO, while he was teaching at Eastman, before his
untimely death.

I also believe that the principals of the BSO did not generally play in the
Pops in the later years under Fiedler, at least from my memory of their TV
broadcasts in that period.

Don Yungkurth (DYungkurth@-----.com)