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Author: Alphie
Date: 2002-07-20 23:59
Last night I saw a TV broadcast of a NY Phil. concert with Bernstein from the 60th. There were no women in the orchestra. Even the harp player was a man. Did NYPO have roules against women in the orchestra back then?
Alphie
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Author: Dan
Date: 2002-07-21 00:48
As I recall there are a few women in the orchestra; Sheryl Staples, asst. Concertmaster, Judie LeClair, pricipal bassoonist, along with Michelle Saxon, bassist. There are more, but I do not know their names. I wouldn't say that the NYP is womanless.
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Author: Dan
Date: 2002-07-21 00:55
Whoops, I thought you were refering to the recent telecast of the NYP on PBS, my mistake. I dont think they hired any women til the 70s
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-07-21 03:13
Dan wrote:
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> As I recall there are a few women in the orchestra;
There are presently about 30 women in the NY Phil.
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Author: nzdonald
Date: 2002-07-21 20:09
i remember seeing Danny Kay (or "Kaye"?) conducting an orchestra on tv- i think it was the NY phil..... this was years ago..... there was this lovely Bassoon playing woman, and at about 14 years of age i considered sending her fan mail!!!! Judie LeClair perhaps? maybe she'd have thought it was funny to get "fan mail" from some spotty teenager, it might have just annoyed her...
but meanwhile- in NZ we have loads of women in our orchestras, at one point all four (clarinet) players in the nzso were women. But then again, we've only really had orchestras for the last 50 years..... no tradition to fight against.
donald
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-07-21 23:29
nzdonald - speaking of your fine orchestra. Heard a broadcast on Saturday featuring the NZSO. They played the Walton Viola Concerto and the Sibelius 2nd symphony, from Wellington Town Hall. A nice acoustic and a worldclass ensemble.
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Author: Pam
Date: 2002-07-22 00:29
I got to hear the Cleveland Orchestra last night and noticed quite a few women throughout the string section. (They did a night of all Mozart pieces including the Clarinet Concerto and the flute Concerto in D.)
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-07-22 01:11
Wow - now there's a fine ensemble. Who played the solo Pam?
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Author: LaLa
Date: 2002-07-22 01:59
the flute concerto was done by joshua smith, principal flute and clarinet by frank cohen, principal clarinet... my question is HOW WAS IT?! i wanted to go SOO BADLY!!
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2002-07-23 14:21
I remember watching rebroadcasts a few years ago of some of Bernstein's Young People's Concerts from the 60s. Seemed like all the musicians were little balding middle-aged men with hornrim glasses (no women that I could see), lookin' like Mel Cooley from the Dick Van Dyke Show -- and there's Bernstein all pressed and polished and manicured and blow-dried at the podium cutting a dashing figure that surely made all the ladies swoon. No wonder the guy was such a cultural icon. He was a sure better sight to look at than the guys in the viola section.
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