In Reply to: Sorry, the concertmaster solos in Scheherazade never worked for me... posted by John Marks on October 3, 2016 at 17:41:09:
I remember during my student days he very briefly took the position of concertmaster of the NY Philharmonic on an interim basis before Glenn Dicterow took over, so of course I heard him live then.
The Reiner/CSO Scheherazade is imperfect in a number of ways IMHO, among other things it isn't served as well by the minimalist early RCA stereo recording techniques as were some others from that era. The violin solos are among the problems.
How old was he when you heard him in Providence?
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Follow Ups
- Wasn't that Sidney Harth? - rbolaw 19:36:06 10/03/16 (1)
- Yes; and it was somewhere between 1982 and 1984 - John Marks 07:25:10 10/04/16 (0)