Old Orchestral Oddities

[robcat2075]

The NYC premiere of Heldenleben, in the more is more age:

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Maud Powell with a bit of forgotten repertoire. Maud Powell used to tour with the Sousa Band!

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Hip, Hip, Horatio! Parker is most remembered to day as a teacher of Charles Ives.
Ernst von Dohnányi was the grandfather of the recent Cleveland Orchestra conductor, Cristoph.

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The Trombone and Tuba feature (?) figures on quite a few children's concerts in the 1920s era.

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[2bobone]

"Hip, Hip, Horatio! Parker is most remembered to day as a teacher of Charles Ives.
Ernst von Dohnányi was the grandfather of the recent Cleveland Orchestra conductor, Cristoph."

Horatio Parker should also be credited with a compositional technique in which he attempted to accommodate the reverberant characteristics of a cathedral by writing one part of a solo line to be reinforced by the same line repeated one beat later and then allowing the "decay" of that line to be similarly addressed. It was a bit confusing to the orchestral musicians, but the listeners were somewhat less so. It didn't catch on ---- I wonder why ?

[BGuttman]

Children's concerts get the brass solos. Orchestral concerts get piano or string solos.