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A rare treat... Hindemith conducting the CSO
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:37 pm
by Bandmaster
Here are a couple of GREAT videos up on YouTube...
Paul Hindemith conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1963 - Concert Music for Strings and Brass. Awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I5aADXJ6yQ part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MWCc22WRLM part 2
Enjoy!
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:47 pm
by musicallife
I just got to see the CSO live during the final run through for a field trip....it is really amazing!
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:30 pm
by eternalbando
That's incredibly cool! Thanks for posting those videos on WOP for us to see!!
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:51 pm
by bassoonuba
Thanks for the links... you always find the best stuff.
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:23 pm
by eternalbando
We talked about Hindemith today in my "Music Methods for the Elementary and Secondary Schools" class, (a.k.a. Methods). So, I promptly pulled out my laptop, came to this thread, and emailed the links to my professor. =)
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:32 am
by Brich
Although Hindemith doesn't show it in the videos, imagine how he must have felt to be hearing his music played by some of the absolute masters of their respective instruments....what a rush that must have been for everyone!
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:06 pm
by Bandmaster
Absolutely, he must have...
Back in that day the CSO's brass section was considered, by many, to be the best brass section in the world. I know that the tuba player, Arnold Jacobs, is an absolute legend in the tuba world. And the lead trumpet, Bud Herseth, has been called the god of all classical trumpet players.
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:43 pm
by Hostrauser
Brich wrote:Although Hindemith doesn't show it in the videos, imagine how he must have felt to be hearing his music played by some of the absolute masters of their respective instruments....what a rush that must have been for everyone!
Hell, I got butterflies just listening to a junior college band play my works. I can't even comprehend what it must have been like to have stood in front of the CSO of 40-50 years ago.
As Dave said, the CSO's brass section from that period is considered by most to be one of the (if not THE) greatest of all time. And the rest of the orchestra wasn't chopped liver, either!
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:48 am
by Brich
Hostrauser wrote:Brich wrote:Although Hindemith doesn't show it in the videos, imagine how he must have felt to be hearing his music played by some of the absolute masters of their respective instruments....what a rush that must have been for everyone!
Hell, I got butterflies just listening to a junior college band play my works. I can't even comprehend what it must have been like to have stood in front of the CSO of 40-50 years ago.
As Dave said, the CSO's brass section from that period is considered by most to be one of the (if not THE) greatest of all time. And the rest of the orchestra wasn't chopped liver, either!
I recall as a freshman at CSULB in '67, we had some brass players who were wearing out various CSO recordings as they considered the CSO concept of brass sound the ultimate. Obviously, guys like Herseth were unique forces of nature...how else could a mere mortal hold down that chair for half a century, maintaining that standard of excellence?
By the way, I highly recommend the CSO collaboration with Leonard Bernstein on the Shostakovich Symphony #7 (a live performance recorded in Orchestra Hall in 1989)....quality of sound/playing is simply astounding.