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...piano with 19 keys missing, and a harmonium. Salvaging and pasting together scraps of toilet paper and margins from book leaves, and writing with only a tip of lead from a pencil, Goldberg scored from memory the entire Beethoven Violin Concerto for his little orchestra. He gave the woodwind and bass parts to the harmonium, and gave the piano "all the noise of an orchestra...
...please, discovered that a French orchestra is more than just another orchestra that happens to come from France: it has a tonal quality all its own. To most U.S. ears, used to lush, soaring strings, France's finest sounded a little thin. True to French tradition, the woodwind choir was outstanding (many a top U.S. woodwind player learned his trade from the French). Some in the audience missed the drilled precision of U.S. orchestras. Explained Director Barraud: "Our musicians are individualists. I don't mean that one violinist will be pushing up his bow while another is pulling...
...This is the most exciting thing that's happened since the opera house was built," said the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra's manager. The woodwind players were stomping their feet, brass players were applauding; violinists rapped their bows on their music stands. The audience had started it by clapping spontaneously between movements, which simply isn't done ordinarily. Said one awed onlooker: "My God, some of the ladies are even taking their gloves...
Second on the program was the Schubert Third Symphony. Musicians claim that Schubert's early orchestral scores were written with a student orchestra in mind, but no student orchestra ever existed with a woodwind section that could handle Schubert...
...they saw one. But they might recognize a bassoon. Known in German as the Fagott, because of its resemblance to a slim bundle of sticks, the bassoon is the standard bass instrument of the "double reed" or oboe family. It has been known, in facetious circles, as an "ill woodwind that nobody blows good." The contrabassoon is a giant bassoon built to sound an octave lower than the standard bassoon...