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wiseone2
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Mel Broiles was there for a season or so.
I heard Mel play a spectacular concert that included a Roussel piece.
Mel was there before Gil Johnson.
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Derek Reaban
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Wilmer,
Thanks for the information! Andrew Tomlinson sent me an email message with the specific details of his tenure with Philadelphia. From the May 1987 ITG Journal, Page 22, it says that “He won the first trumpet position with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1957 and calls that his first big break. A year later he went back to the Met as the principal trumpet”, and he was there until 2001.
I’ll have to contact ITG with this correction to the J. Jerome Amend article.
I have updated the information in the first post to include Mel Broiles for the 1957 season and changed the end date for Samuel Krauss.
Thanks to both of you!
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SAUL CASTON
"In 1918 a seventeen-year-old New York trumpeter named Saul Caston, previously rejected by several other conductors including Ossip Gabrilowitsch of Detroit, applied to Stokowski for an opening he had heard was available. The orchestra was playing in New York and Stokowski agreed to hear the boy in a vacant, dimly lit Carnegie Hall before the concert. He hired him, but with the proviso that he study musical theory under a teacher of Stokowski's choice.
After playing five years with the orchestra, Caston was asked by Stokowski to become first trumpet. 'Do you think I can do it?' he asked. 'Have you any doubts?' countered Stokowski. 'There are a few parts that would frighten me,' admitted Caston, citing particularly the tricky A natural solo trumpet which opens Wagner's Rienzi Overture. Stokowski went ahead with the appointment. He also opened the 1923-'24 season with the Rienzi Overture. Caston played his A perfectly. He remained with the orchestra for twenty-seven years, becoming associate conductor in 1936, and in 1945 he became conductor of the Denver Symphony."
From "Those Fabulous Philadelphians" - The Life and Times of a Great Orchestra by Herbert Kupferberg (W H Allen & Co Ltd, 1969) page 39
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