Toscanini Stereo Pathetique First MVT

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This will clear up some of the rumors. Yes the first mvt collpases at one point but as a whole it is a good performance. I think it was the recently late Alan Shulman who said that AT was all there at the dress rehearsal but not at the broadcast. Some conductors do not conduct as well when they are all there.

My best guess as to the principal players:

Concermaster Daniel Guilet Second Violin Ed Bachman Viola Carlton Cooley Cello Frank Miller Bass Philp Sklar Tympani Karl Glassman Flute Paul Renzi Oboe Paolo Renzi Bassoon Elias Carmen Licorice Stick-Alexander Williams Horn Arthur Berv Trumpet Harry Glantz Trombone Neil Dibiasi Tuba Joseph Novotny

Anybody still alive from this list????

One more concert and the orchestra was disbanded. One of the most dispicable and anti-musical happenings of the 20th century. Sarnoff was a zillionaire. Couldn't he just keep the orchestra for his own pride? Couldn't Cantelli or sombody else sell enough tickets and records to break even for RCA/NBC.

Read the Book Agitato about the SOA, Very interesting.

If I was alive then I would have suggested that they find some wealthy patrons, buildd a concert hall on Long Island and move there.

Didn't it survive for a few years as the Symphony of the Air?

Paul Goldstein

Paul Renzi yet breathes, so far as I know.

And was still playing breathlessly at last week's San Francisco Symphony performances under Rostropovich.

is he the principal or a section member. Let; see 1954 was 46 years ago.... so he must be... pretty old. Adolf Herseth just retired from the CSO as principal trumpet at 70 Stanley Drucker is still principal Clarinet in the NY Phil. He has been in the orchestra since 1948. I think he is 72. Some players forget they are old. It must be the enjoyment of the music that keeps them young. Look at the age of Casals, Stokowski Toscanini etc.

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Renzi has been principal flute for as long as I can remember. Here's his bio from the SFSO website:

Paul Renzi, Flute

Paul Renzi has appeared many times as soloist with the Orchestra, in concertos of Honegger, Vivaldi, and Mozart, and in many other works. Born in New York City, he began studying piano at eight, went on to study flute with John Wummer of the New York Philharmonic, and attended Queens College. At eighteen, Mr. Renzi was named Principal Flute of the San Francisco Symphony by Pierre Monteux, subsequently becoming principal flutist with the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini. He returned to his present position with the San Francisco Symphony in 1957. Mr. Renzi is Professor Emeritus of San Francisco State University.

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I believe he served in the US Army in between his original SFS gig and his appointment to the NBC Symphony. He was second flute in the latter for some years, until Carmine Coppola (yep) eventually left. I gather there was no love lost between those two flutists, since Renzi enjoyed telling me of a recording session where he was asked to play a particular solo passage because Coppola was unable to play it in tune.