It also exhibited a keen understanding of something that would work well in the primative recording environment, and especially the even more primative playback environment, of that time. -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lewis" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 8:55 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Stokowski and percussion instruments > Although of minor relevance to the thread, Stoki added xylophone to his > arrangement of Handel's "Water Music" which he recorded for Victor in, I > think, 1927. > That would be heresy these days, but I found the effect quite novel and > musical. > > David N. "Uncle Dave" Lewis > Lebanon, OH > > > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > >> 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 >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack McCarthy" < >> [log in to unmask]> >> To: <[log in to unmask]> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 7:18 PM >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List >>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carl Pultz >>> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 8:10 AM >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> 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. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List >>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Donald Tait >>> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 8:08 PM >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> > >