Klarinet Archive - Posting 000442.txt from 1998/02

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: NBC Symphony
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:52:26 -0500

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.98
> Subj: NBC Symphony

> Can someone satisfy my curiosity and tell me who might have played
> principal clarinet for Toscanini in the NBC Symphony in 1952. I saw an
> excerpt of a Carnegie Hall concert on TV and would be interested to know
> who was playing the solo in The Pines of Rome.

It could have been any one of several players but I don't know which one
it was. Possibilities include Rufus Airie, Alex Williams (who is still
alive and lives near me), or for a very short period of time Ralph
MacLane.

>
> Thanks,
> MG
>
> Michael Galvan
> Professor of Music, Clarinet
> School of Music
> Ithaca College
> Ithaca, New York, USA
>
> phone: (607)274-3410
> fax: (607)274-1727
> e-mail: galvan@-----.edu
> web site: http://www.ithaca.edu/mgalvan
>
>
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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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