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Re: Chicago Sym Orchestra - 1/28 audition results

Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2008-01-30 21:34

Well, it's "set the record straight" time again! Despite what Iggy Gennusa might have told you, Ed, he was fired by Music Director Rafael Kubelik from the Chicago Symphony. As part of a "Saturday night massacre" in 1951 Iggy got his pink slip along with principal flutist Rene Rateau and first bassoon Sherman Walt. This was all part of a package deal to obtain the great Julius Baker as first flute and Leonard Sharrow as first bassoon. They were members of the CBS Symphony in New York, and bringing along Clark Brody as first clarinet was in the package. Iggy Gennusa's playing in the CSO was exceptional and admired by colleagues and students alike. He was my section coach in the Civic Orchestra and I was happy to avail myself of a few private lessons at the time.

Iggy's tenure in the National Symphony was prior to his year in the CSO.. His wife's desire to play violin in the CSO was not an issue in his Chicago termination; more likely his rationalization of this issue was a form of denial from a very traumatic episode!

One of Gennusa's fellow "victims", Sherman Walt, went on to a highly distinguished career as principal bassoon in the Boston Symphony. All of these shenanigans went on in the dark days before issues like tenure and peer revue ever surfaced in the symphonic profession. Looks like recent events in Seattle have turned the clock back -- at least in that venue!

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