[78-L] An Orchestra Rehearsal

[David Lennick]

It's Mozart..DSL 224, The Birth of a Performance, Mozart Linz Symphony + 
rehearsals (fortunately my Dead Conductors are filed alphabetically). There's 
lots of interesting Toscanini rehearsal stuff but I remember that 78 as being 
unlistenable and badly miked.

dl

On 3/7/2012 9:08 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> It might be Mozart but I don't remember&  the LP set (grey six eye) is somewhere in my massive record accumulation. I'd love to hear the other rehearsals you meantion as well as any Toscaninni ones too.
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>> I thought it was Mozart, but I haven't looked at any of those rehearsal records
>> in a long time. Some of them are interesting..I have Monteux and Rodzinski
>> rehearsals, among others. And the classic is a whole LP of Beecham singing
>> along with Mozart and I think Haydn.
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>> dl
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>> On 3/7/2012 8:08 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>>> There's a 2 LP set on Columbia with Bruno Walter rehearsing the orchestra for the same symphony (either Beethoven or Brahms) thats played on the first LP. It's somewhere in my vinyl collection as a set of 12" LP's with it's original jacket. I don't remember which symphony it is but the rehearsal is interesting to listen to.
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>>> I'd love to hear the Fiedler&   Toscaninni discs some day!!
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>>>> Pretty pointless, as I recall. Another gem was Toscanini screaming at his
>>>> musicians, on a blue label disc put out by Jack L. Caidin.
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>>>> dl
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>>>> On 3/7/2012 6:28 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>>>>> I just ran across a curious record called "An Orchestra Rehearsal" by Theodore Cella, performed by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston P.O.  I don't know if it's supposed to be funny or instructive.  It's hard to hear the conductor's comments because he isn't miked and the orchestra is very loud.  I don't know if the entire production was written by Cella or just the music they're rehearsing.  The only hint that it's supposed to be comical is that it sounds like the harpist breaks a string when he's asked to play a solo, (Theodore Cella is or was a harpist, I can't find any dates for him but there is a photograph of him on line playing the harp in the New York Phil. from 1938 so if he is still alive he must be at least 100 years old).  It's on both sides of a 10 inch 78 and the first half of the second side is just the sound of orchestra noodling, then they play the piece they had been rehearsing, (a very short piece, probably less than a minute
>   long).
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>>>>> db
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