washunk

I joined TM yesteday after Googling Paolo Longinotti and seeing some TM member's tribute to him as the greatest orchestral trumpet player. Well, I had to join to half-agree and qualify it by saying that Harry Glantz ain't (er ... weren't) no chopped liver. In any case, these two had to be the greatest from a long-past era when the focus was on the sound (B-flat, real trumpet sound, maybe occasionally C sound) instead of on the breadth of the repertoire, played on any size of pipe you can get a mouthpiece into.

My first and most lasting memory of Paolo was on a 1950's Bartok Concerto for Orchestra with the Suisse Romande conducted by Ansermet. Early memories of Glantz are too many to remember which was first - probably Pictures at an Exhibition. In the 1950's you could hear him on live TV programs such as NBC's Wide Wide World (which he and Billy Butterfield sat on), specials like the "Christmas Tree" with Carol Channing and Noel Coward and CBS's "World War One" playing Morton Gould's marvelous score.

I had a tough time, having grown up in Hersethland (Chicago) where the great "Bud" Herseth was the well-deserved coin of the realm within its friendly confines. Early friend and idol Luther Didrickson's opinion that Glantz "had a good studio sound" (quote circa 1960) but not an orchestral sound, seemed to be common. Somehow, I survived.

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Welcome washunk! It will be great to have your point of view here! How did you know Luther Didrickson?

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Loved the NBC recording of Pictures! Welcome aboard!

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washunk

VB,

Thanks for the shout-out. I joined the chamber orchestra accompanying an area-wide high school chorus named Hi-Chicago Chorale in 1954 when I was in the 8th grade. Luther, who was then a senior at Carl Schurz High School and the 2nd trumpet in the Chicagoland Youth Symphony - Tom Knoflicek played 1st and performed the Haydn with the orchestra that year - Luther said years later that Tom was still around, playing in polka bands - later joined Chorale to play 1st trumpet and I adopted him as my idol. He had a strong pesonality, was very generous in helping me with my playing and as a younger friend. At that time was fairly religious, which belief underwent some modification in subsequent years. When he married Sally, his violist girlfriend, I stayed fairly close to them until the early 1970's, when I left the country, but we never rekindled the relationship after I returned in 1981.

I saw last year that he'd passed in 2003, I think. The outpouring of love in web remembrances for this generous, commited and gifted man was well-deserved and very moving, as it was just the way I remember him. He really touched a lot of lives.

Did you know him, VB? Sally?

washunk