Glad to say, I was on vacation for nearly a month and did not go near a computer or other email-equipped device during that span, so I did not have to experience this discussion in real time. I did, however read the article on the day it was published (believe it or not, you can get the NY Times at the general store on an island 10 miles off the coast of Maine, but have to pay a premium price for it) and anticipated the brouhaha that it would unleash. I won't go into what I thought, thereby re-igniting the thread, other than to say that the direct personal references to Phil Myers and Dave Jolley were pretty bush league, not to mention pretty inaccurate (I was sitting in the front row at the first performance of the 92nd Street Y concert and Dave did have some difficulty with the Adagio and Allegro - and it still was a musically inspiring concert when considered as a whole).
What I did want to toss in was that it was Lester Salomon that lost his gig at the Met due to messing up the second horn part in Fidelio. I have heard various versions of this tale, including directly from the late Lester Salomon himself and I am not sure about the lawsuit part from my any of my recollections but Lester did lose his job. Maybe it was someone else that was named in the review or maybe it was an entirely different incident (after all, we are talking about Fidelio, which gets played a lot and generally gives a lot of agita to the horns, here) Any other old timers on the list have a clearer picture on this? I will dig around the NY Times archives to see if I can dig any old skeletons up. Peter Hirsch >date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:58:59 -0400 >from: Debbie Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >subject: Re: [Hornlist] NY Times horn feature > >I did not find the article "upsetting" but the problem is .... It is not >balanced in the talking of the whole of a season. Secondly, without a union >a article like this could mean the end of a job for someone. > >Many years a go there was a scathing review of the MET orchestra playing I >believe Fidelio. It talked about the opening solos. It mentioned one of the >principals by name just so happens it was not the guy in the pit. There was >a lawsuit for defamation and the player named but not playing won. _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
