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Yesterday, the New York Times ran on its Arts Beat blog a piece about the New York Philharmonic's performance of the Symphony No. 2 by Rachmaninoff, and the attempts by the paper's music critic to learn the name of the clarinetist who performed the solo in the second movement of that work.
Read the story: Mystery at the Philharmonic Yesterday, I received a phone call from Tim McFadden, principal trumpet and orchestra manager for the Tulsa Symphony, informing me that there had been a change in bassoonists for the orchestra's concert of Saturday, and gave me the name of the person who would be in the principal seat of that section Saturday night.
It's always good to know -- especially from a reviewer's point of view -- who is playing what, because orchestra musicians do not often get the sort of individual praise they deserve.
That the New York Philharmonic wouldn't want one of its musicians to be singled out for an exceptional performance -- never mind the fact that the clarinetist in question was a guest performer, rather than an "official" Philharmonic player -- is odd, to say the least.
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