Klarinet Archive - Posting 000387.txt from 2000/03

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Robert McGinnis
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:57:39 -0500

If memory serves me correctly, Stanley took over the chair after
McGinnis left the NYP and Stanley recently celebrated his 50th year with
the orchestra so you can calculate backwards to something like 1948.
McGinnis had a sad ending with his great playing. After he left the NY
Phil, he became a teacher at one of the big colleges in the midwest, but
it did not work out for reasons about which I know nothing. So he came
back to NY but could really not restart his career. There were some
fabulous players in NY at the time. He wound up playing in the Band of
America at the World's Fair and the circus. He should have had better
and was certainly deserving of it when one considers how beautifully he
played. I used to see him at Linx and Long on 48th street. I was in
awe of him and he was very distinguished. He worked hard at being so.
Never a back-slapper.

fsheim@-----.com wrote:
>
> I just played an old LP entitled ROBERT MCGINNIS PLAYS THE CLARINET and am
> wondering what its age might be. There is no copyright date on it, but the
> liner notes give a biography of Robert McGinnis that ends with "Mr.
> McGinnis is currently playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra..."
> The record is a "New High Fidelity Recording", not Stereo, so it is
> probably from the 1950's. Does anyone have Mr. McGinnis' dates with the
> New York Philharmonic?
>
> Fred (fsheim@-----.com)
>
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