Klarinet Archive - Posting 001051.txt from 1998/01
From: Alan Stanek <stanalan@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: klarinet-dijest V1 #608 - Pasquale Cardillo's passing
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:37:16 -0500
Jim,
Thought you might like to see this for the magazine.
I think we're still havin fun?! :) alan
klarinet-digest wrote:
>
> klarinet-digest Saturday, January 24 1998 Volume 01 : Number 608
>
> Pasquale Cardillo 1918-1998
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> Sat, 24 Jan 1998 20:38:01 -0500
> From: Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.net>
> Subject: Pasquale Cardillo 1918-1998
>
> Pasquale Cardillo the former long-time second clarinetist of the Boston
> Symphony Orchestra and principal clarinetist of the Boston Pops passed away
> this past Tuesday. Below is the obituary from the Boston Globe today. He
> was a member of the BSO for 45 years and a teacher of many students in the
> Boston area. He taught for many years at Boston University, privately, and
> at Tanglewood.
>
> I studied with him in high school and part of college and learned most of
> the basic aspects of clarinet playing from him. I still remember my first
> lesson with him. I went in to play the Brahms f minor Sonata when I was in
> 10th grade. Having recently received a nearly perfect score on my All
> State audition playing that piece, I thought I knew how to play it.
>
> When I left the lesson, having been stopped by Mr. Cardillo on nearly every
> measure, I felt incredibly exhilarated at the prospect of how much more I
> had to learn! He was a real stickler for rhythm, sound and dynamics (and
> didn't like vibrato, by the way; he always told me to stop; but later on, I
> think he started to like it a bit; I never gave up). He was a great
> teacher and a great cook!
>
> I thought other past students of his on the list might be interested in the
> news of his passing.
>
> - --------------------
> Jonathan Cohler
> cohler@-----.net
>
> ***********************************************
> Clarinetist with symphony for 45 years; at 79
>
> By Tom Long, Globe Staff, 01/24/98
>
> Pasquale Cardillo, a clarinetist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 45
> years, died Tuesday at his home in Newton. He was 79.
>
> "Patsy," as he was called, was a member of the Boston Symphony from 1939
> until 1984. He also performed with the Boston Pops.
>
> He was born in 1918 in North Adams and graduated from New England
> Conservatory of Music. He joined the symphony in 1939, when conductor Serge
> Koussevitzky was frantically searching for a clarinetist to join the
> orchestra at Tanglewood, the symphony's summer home in Lenox. Mr. Cardillo
> and 20 others auditioned, and the call came to his home in North Adams. "I
> came down on the train, and I was numb," Mr. Cardillo recalled in a 1981
> Globe interview.
>
> Koussevitzky's temper in rehearsal was legendary. "He would look over the
> top of his glasses," Mr. Cardillo recalled, "and that blue vein would start
> sticking out of the side of his head, and you knew you had it coming."
>
> Mr. Cardillo said that once, early in his career, he "panicked" and made an
> incorrect entry in the final "General Dance" of Ravel's "Daphnis and
> Chloe." Because that clarinet solo leads a parade, everyone followed him,
> leaving Koussevitzky conducting all alone. Afterward, he was summoned into
> the conductor's presence. "What are you doing?" Koussevitzky asked. "Why
> you not stop and begin again?"
>
> During another concert, Koussevitzky told Mr. Cardillo, "If you play like
> this again, you will kill me." A disaffected bassoonist approached Mr.
> Cardillo at intermission and said, "If you play like that again, I'll give
> you $25."
>
> A self-described "hot-headed Italian," Mr. Cardillo played for the Boston
> Pops under the late Arthur Fiedler. During a rehearsal many years ago, he
> became angry with Fiedler and muttered "bastard" under his breath. The
> maestro took offense and stalked off the stage. Mr. Cardillo apologized to
> Fiedler and the two became friends. In fact, Mr. Cardillo often drove
> Fiedler to performances. He recalled one trip when they were stopped at a
> traffic light and some teenagers spotted the famous conductor. "Look," they
> excitedly called out, "there's Beethoven."
>
> Mr. Cardillo admitted that some of the classically trained Pops musicians
> found it awkward - even demeaning - to play the commercially successful
> Pops music designed to appeal to mass audiences.
>
> "But nobody has a right to look down his nose at you because you prefer the
> Pops to Symphony. It's good music. It's fun," Mr Cardillo said in 1984, and
> spoke of an episode when Koussevitzky was conducting a rehearsal of a score
> by an American composer.
>
> "It was a cruddy piece," said Mr. Cardillo. "He knew we didn't like it. He
> said: `Gentlemen, it doesn't make any difference how you feel about this
> music. You have to play it as though it were the greatest music ever
> written."'
>
> An accomplished cook, Mr. Cardillo's clam sauce and scampi recipes were
> featured in the Boston Symphony Cookbook. He also enjoyed fishing at his
> lakeside summer cottage in the Berkshires near Tanglewood.
>
> Mr. Cardillo played his last concert with the Boston Symphony at Symphony
> Hall on Sept. 8, 1984. He was said to be delighted that Queen Beatrix of
> the Netherlands attended. After he took his final bow, he hurried to the
> Berkshires to get in some trout fishing.
>
> He leaves his wife, Charlotte A. (Magnuson); a daughter, Marian Kidder of
> Swanton, Vt.; three sons, Thomas of Wrentham, John of Hopkinton, and
> Richard of Newton; two sisters, Angela Mullen of North Adams and Christina
> Moran of Florida; two brothers, Peter of Florida and Francis of
> Williamstown; and eight grandchildren.
>
> A funeral Mass will be said at 11 a.m. today in St Bernard Church, Newton.
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>
> End of klarinet-digest V1 #608
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