Aleks, As I mentioned, previously, the recording session for Pictures took place on October 14, 1958.
The NY Phil played the following program at Carnegie Hall on October 9, 10, 11 & 12: Leonard Bernstein conducting Gilbert: Comedy Overture on Negro Themes MacDowell: Indian Suite no. 2 in e minor Chopin: Piano concerto no. 2 in f minor, op. 21 (Guiomar Novaes) Moussorgsky-Ravel: Pictures at an exhibition The back page of the program lists the horns: James Chambers Joseph Singer Louis Ricci Ranier De Intinis Marcus Fischer William Namen (Aside - the only name that appears on the personnel list that is still with the orchestra is Stanley Drucker - e-flat clarinet in 1958, principal in 2007. Somewhat horn-related, I see Arthur Schuller towards the front of the second violin section. He was Gunther's pop. I worked with him quite a bit after he retired from the Philharmonic and had relocated to somewhere up near Poughkeepsie and he was a fount of stories and information, not to mention very proud of his son's accomplishments. Though he must have been 80-something at the time, I remember doing bus and truck tours with him and he seemed to be the one who knew the hot spots in whatever town we touched down in and would be in the vanguard of any post-performance expedition). It is possible that Joe Singer was playing solo, but, given the arrangement of the program, I suspect that Chambers played the "big" work on this occasion. I may pursue this out of general curiousness and give Barbara Haws a call over at the NYPO archives, though, when I have visited there, I did not see much evidence that this sort of paper trail (day-to-day rosters and contracts for specific recordings) was preserved. Unfortunately, from what I know of the recording industry, I don't think that Columbia (now Sony) Records would be holding on to this information after 49 years either. Peter H. > ------------------------------ > > message: 3 > date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:33:52 -0400 > from: Aleks Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > subject: [Hornlist] Pictures/Bernst/NYPhil > > Does anyone know who the first horn on this recording was? This is > the one on the "Great Performances" label. > > Aleks Ozolins > _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
