Author: Dwight Manning
Date: 2010-08-03 13:10
According to Bernard Sherman of Iowa City, Iowa:
After the war, de Lancie became Associate First Oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Strauss instructed his publisher to give de Lancie the rights for the American premiere, but the honor was denied him when the Philadelphia's celebrated principal oboist, Marcel Tabuteau, threw a fit at the thought of being upstaged. Instead of giving the rights to Tabuteau, De Lancie conferred them on a friend of his in the CBS Symphony - the young oboist Mitchell Miller, later famous as the host of an American pops TV show, "Sing along with Mitch.".
Quoted from Gramophone, December, 2003, p. 26 (Letters to the editor) and April 2004 (p. 22)
Dwight Manning
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