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NBC Symphony Clarinetists

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2013-09-01 23:50

This list is from the booklet for the 5-LP set A Toscanini Treasury of Historic Broadcasts, RCA LM-6711

Augustin Duques *
Harold Freeman
Alfred Gallodoro
Louis Green *
Georges Grisez *
Louis Klein
Robert McGinnis
John Peper
Wallace Shapiro
Alexander Williams

* = principal

I've also read that Gino Cioffi was a member, perhaps briefly. His first language was Italian, so maybe he and Toscanini understood too much of what the other said.

Alexander Williams told me that he became the principal after Duques left and that he played the nightingale solo in the famous recording of The Pines of Rome.

Some of the name are unfamiliar to me, e.g., Louis Green. Steve Hartman studied with Duques and has written some excellent postings about him. If anyone studied with one of the players on the list, perhaps they could post their memories.

Glenn: Please add this to my Historical Principals listing at http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=20&i=1437&t=1437. Also, I'm of two minds about having it in the Keepers section, since that has to be explicitly included in a search started from this section.

Ken Shaw

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