Re: so who is the best?

Posted by Square Peg on February 4, 2007 at 04:31:58

In Reply to: so who is the best? posted by docw on February 3, 2007 at 22:28:05:

I couldn't say.

But the list of those who made the Cleveland great and are now dead or retired is long:

Robert Marcellus, Clarinet
Myron Bloom, French Horn
Bernard Adelstein, Trumpet
Bernard Goldschmidt, Violin, ass't Concertmaster
Rafael Drurian, Violin, Concertmaster
John Mack, Oboe
Donald White, Cello
Merritt Dittert, Bass Trombone
Maurice Sharp, Flute
Clyde Duff, Tympani
Twyla Tharp, Harp

Those are just from memory. I saw no familiar faces at all. The only name I recognised on the program was Joella Jones. Years pass and things change and it won't be too long before their students (I am one) are gone as well.

Hopeful signs for the orchestra and classical music were the youth of both many of the performers and the audience. And that the Ireland and Ratner families have taken a leading role in establishing an endowment and new business model for the orchestra.

Which brings me to an amusing thought I had while waiting for the light at Bellflower and Euclid on the way home only Clevelanders will appreciate: Jews turn left, Gentiles right (no, nothing to do with politics)!

'The beatings will continue until morale improves'

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