Klarinet Archive - Posting 000418.txt from 2000/03

From: GSmithClarinet@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Robert McGinnis
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:25:03 -0500

In a message dated 3/13/00 4:31:15 AM Central Standard Time,
f.williams@-----.au writes:

<< Robert McGinnis was the first clarinetist I ever had lessons with at
Indiana University in the summers of 1961 and 1962.He had recently
retired from the Philharmonic(1960?).He didn't last long there,and as
far as I know,he then took up a position with the San Francisco
Symphony.Does anyone know for sure if he was in San Francisco?

Regards,
Floyd Williams
Queensland Conservatorium
Brisbane, Australia>>
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Yes Floyd, he was co-principal in the San Francisco Symphony along with the
then other principal, Phil Fath (who is now principal of the SF. Opera
Orchestra).

I remember playing many principal parts while in the SF. Symphony that were
signed by him with the initials RM. There were also several stories about him
and his playing that were told to me by SF. Symphony musicians that had
played with him.

The conductor Joseph Krips brought in several co-principal woodwinds at that
time - a time when a conductor was allowed to do those sorts of things when
there was actually no such "co" principal position in the orchestra - one of
whom was the incomparable oboist Marc Lifschey who had just been fired by
Szell in Cleveland.

Best,

Gregory Smith
Evanston, Illinois.

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