Related to this discussion:
In the December 1958 issue of Hi-Fi Review:
http://tinyurl.com/lcsjutn
There is an article by Colin McPhee about the music of Bali. Photos show drums and other native
instruments.
-- Tom Fine
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From: "Jack McCarthy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [ARSCLIST] Stokowski and percussion instruments
> In 2012-13 I served as consulting archivist for the Philadelphia Orchestra's
> celebration of the centennial of its hiring of Stokowski as conductor. In
> the PO archives I came across a letter from Stoki during his 1928 Asia trip
> in which he informs the PO that in Java he had purchased four Javanese gongs
> and was shipping them to the Orchestra. I was later able to track the gongs
> down - they are owned by the Curtis Institute.
>
> Eichheim, who traveled with Stoki for part of the trip, also composed a
> piece entitled "Java" that Stoki premiered with the PO in 1930. It called
> for tuned gongs. I presume they used the ones Stoki had purchased.
>
> For an exhibit I did as part of the centennial celebration, I was able to
> display Stoki's letter, two of the actual gongs, and the program from the
> 1930 performance of "Java."
>
>
> Jack McCarthy
> Certified Archivist
> Archival/Historical Consultant
>
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Dora Labbette, Soprano with string quartette: The
> Flowers of the Forests, 1925?
>
> I'm rereading Oliver Daniel's "Stokowski." He tells about Stoki's Asia/south
> seas trip in the 20s when the conductor studied percussion with Indian
> physicist Jagadis Bose and collected instruments. Eichheim's "Bali" stems
> from this journey, which Stoki later recorded. Some of those instruments may
> have ended up on his famous recording of "Gurrelieder." It was an enduring
> interest, as well into the 50s he was playing percussion works by Harrison,
> et al, and premiered McPhee's Tabuh-Tabuhan in 1953.
>
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> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 8:08 PM
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> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Dora Labbette, Soprano with string quartette: The
> Flowers of the Forests, 1925?
>
> Reiner also studied percussion as a student in Budapest. Including
> timpani, which might help explain the added prominence of and occasional
> added timpani parts in his CSO recordings (it's harder to tell with his
> Pittsburgh and other recordings). I remember talking to Sam Denov, who was
> then a retired member of the Chicago Symphony's percussion section. He said
> "Reiner was DEATH on percussion." Meaning that he not only heard everything,
> which was a given, but that he knew exactly what he wanted and wouldn't
> settle until he got it. Sam was speaking from his personal CSO
> experience....
>
> Also, Reiner made piano rolls in 1925 et seq. Four-hand versions in which
> he was credited as being one of the two pianists and others in which he was
> credited as the "conductor." Philip Hart wrote about it on page 44 of his
> biography of Reiner.
>
> Don Tait
>
>
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