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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]>
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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" <
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>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> 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
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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.
>>>
>>> -----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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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