Cleveland Orchestra November 13, 1919 with Nikolai Sokoloff, first conductor **
Musicians of the Cleveland Orchestra
This website, www.stokowski.org has two listings of musicians of the great
Cleveland Orchestra:
- A listing of the Principal Musicians of the Cleveland Orchestra
with short biographical notes and photographs. This listing is available
by clicking on the webpage
Cleveland Orchestra Principal Musicians.
- A listing of all the Musicians of the Cleveland Orchestra
1918-today. This listing is contained on this webpage, as shown below.
A Listing of the Musicians of the Cleveland Orchestra 1918 until
Today
This is a listing of all musicians identified so far who were permanent, contracted
members of the Cleveland Orchestra since its founding in 1918. Their name, instrument
and dates of service, as well as titles are given. Where a musician played more than
one instrument, a separate listing, with dates, is provided for that musician. I have
also begun to add birth and death years, where known.
Sources for this information include 'Fanfare: Portraits of the Cleveland Orchestra'17 and my personal files and updates, as well as Donald Rosenberg's fine book
The Cleveland Orchestra Story, 'Second to None'1.
If you should have updates or corrections to the data listed below,
please contact me at the email address given below.
. (** note that in the 1919 photo
above, the Cleveland Orchestra is performing in Grays Armory,
but the Cleveland Orchestra had already moved most concerts to the
Masonic Auditorium the month before this November, 1919 photo.)
flute (also North Carolina Symphony Principal flute. Following the Cleveland Orchestra,
she has been guest Principal flute at a number of orchestras,
including the Metropolitan Opera, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony,
the Baltimore Symphony, San Diego Symphony, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and
for extended periods with the Philadelphia Orchestra)
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Active in summer music
festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival where she is both an
artist and on the faculty.
Studied at the Peabody Conservatory - Baltimore under J. C. Van Hulsteyn, graduated
in 1906. Studied in France 1909-1911. From a musical family, her sister
Ethel Abbott was also an orchestral musician.
Later taught violin in her home town of Union Springs, New York.
1918-1919
Adams, Eugene Carlarous
(Kentucky 1887-1976)
thanks to Adams student John Pierce for additional biographical information
violin 1924-1926, 1945-1947 (also conductor of the Sioux City Symphony in the
1920s 136. also Lakeside-Oberlin Orchestra violin while studying at Oberlin)
Studied at the Oberlin Conservatory, and after his first service at the Cleveland Orchestra,
Eugene Adams returned to study and teach, at the Oberlin Conservatory, graduating in 1933.
Previously taught violin at Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa 136. Adams
moved to El Paso, Texas on his doctor's advice, which apparently worked - Eugene Adams
lived to age 9. In El Paso, Adams played violin in the El Paso Symphony Orchestra and also
taught strings in the Ysleta Indepenent School District of El Paso.
1924-1926, 1945-1947
Adato, Joseph R.
(1937- )
percussion
Studied at the Juilliard School B Science, and Columbia University MA. Taught at the
Willoughby, Ohio Fine Arts Association in the 1960s. He also wrote highly regarded
The Percussionist's Dictionary137 with illustrations
and descriptions of the world's percussion instruments.
1962-at least 1991
Adelstein, Bernard F.
(Ohio 1928- )
Principal trumpet 1960-1988 (also Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo,
Pittsburgh Symphony Second trumpet 1944-1948, Dallas Symphony
1948-1950, Minneapolis Symphony 1950-1960)
Studied with Cleveland Principal trumpet Louis Davidson. Adelstein
was a long-term teacher at Indiana University 1988-1994.
1960-1988
Albers, Fred Jontres
(Ohio 1884-between 1927 and 1930)
cello 1918-1919 (also a Cleveland theater musician in the 1920s but developed
heart disease in 1927)
(Italy 1876-1929) born in Italy, but grew up in Louisville, Kentucky
Principal oboe 1918-1919, English horn 1919-1920
(also listed the 1910 census as a "street musician"
in Louisville, Kentucky)
Seems to have returned to difficult situation in Louisville, and died there at age
only 53.
1918-1920
Altschuler, Eugene E.
(Ohio 1921-2000)
Assistant Concertmaster 1980-1982, Associate Concertmaster 1982-1987, violin
1987-2000 (also Pittsburgh Symphony about 1946-1947, New Orleans Symphony Concertmaster
beginning 1947, Syracuse Symphony Concertmaster prior to Cleveland,
also Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra)
Studied at the Eastman School of Music graduated 1943. Taught at the Cleveland
Institute of Music 1984-2000. Owned with this father an
advertising agency in Detroit, where Eugene Altschuler also played studio sessions
for Motown recording artists.
1980-2000
Amor, Frank F.
(England 1882-circa 1960)
horn 1918-1920
Frank Amor studied first with his musician father Frank Amor Sr.
Later, Frank and his son John Amor became workers on the Cleveland Railway Company
streetcar system in the 1930s and 1940s.
1918-1920
Anderson, Edwin
(Massachusetts 1914- )
Principal Bass trombone 1978-1985, bass trombone 1964-1978
Studied at the Eastman School of Music
1964-1985
Andraud, Albert Jean
(France 1884-1975)
Andraud exercises
English horn, oboe 1926-1929 (also Cincinnati Symphony in the 1930s and 1940s)
Studied at the Paris Conservatoire Premier prix 1900. Taught at the North Texas
State University. While in Cincinnati, Albert Andraud started a music publishing business
with instruction and exercises for many woodwind and brass instruments, which business
he later sold to the Southern Music Company of San Antonio, Texas.
1955-1961 Assistant Principal double
bass,
1961-1975 first Assistant Principal double bass, 1975-1981
acting Principal double bass, 1981-1982, Principal double bass 1981-1995
1955-1995
Angelucci, Ernami Frank
(Pennsylvania 1914-1995)
Second horn
Studied first with his Italian-born musician father, Louis Angelucci
(1889- ) who played French horn in Philadelphia ballet and opera orchestras.
Ernani then studeied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1936, where his
Cleveland Orchestra French horn brother
Louis Angelucci
also studied. Brother Rhadames Angelucci
became Principal oboe with the Minnesota Orchestra 1937-1984.
1937-1944, 1946-1980
Antal, Jeno (or Jenő Antal)
(Hungary 1901-1981)
Roth Quartet (left to right) Jeno Antal, second,
Ferenc Molnar, viola, Janos Scholz, cello, Feri Roth, firSaint Later,
famed cellist János Starker replaced Janos Scholz.
violin 1942-1947, 1949-1962 (also played in the 1930s with the Roth Quartet:
Feri Roth first,
Jeno Antal second,
Ferenc Molnar viola, Janos Scholz, cello
which was organized in the US under the patronage of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
in 1938)
Studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Budapest prior to
World War 1. Jeno Antal pursued a solo violin career in
Paris in 1923-1925, and came to the US in 1926.
1942-1947, 1949-1962
click on the image above to see a photo of the original Roth Quartet,
(l to r) Feri Roth first, Jeno Antal second, Janos Scholz, cello,
Ferenc Molnar viola
Appleman, Gerald Konrad
(California 1936- )
Principal cello 1964-1965, Alternating Principal cello 1965-1966
with Lynn Harrell. (also US Seventh Army Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony,
San Antonio Symphony, New York Philharmonic 102 advanced to
the Assistant Principal cello of the Philharmonic)
Studied at the Juilliard School, graduating in 1959 BA in Music.
Active in chamber music, particularly the New Jersey Chamber
Music Society. He has also been continuously active in summer music
festivals, including the Allegheny Music Festival - Pennsylvania, the
Marlboro Festival - Vermont, and the Festival Casals - Puerto Rico.
violin (also Philadelphia Orchestra Assistant Concertmaster 1973-1978,
Associate Concertmaster, 1978-1993)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1954. Holocaust survivor. After
the war, in Munich played for Efrem Zimbalist in a masterclass at the
Salzburg Mozarteum, which led to Arben’s invitation to attend the Curtis
Institute.
1956-1959
Arenson, Bert
(Ohio 1914-2005)
violin
1950-1965
Arenstein, Michael
cello
1927-1931
Armin, Otto
violin
1964-1965
Arzewski, Cecylia
(Poland 1948- )
Cecylia Arzewski with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conductor Robert Spano accompanying
Associate Concertmaster (also Buffalo Philharmonic
Principal violin 1969-1970, Boston Symphony violin
1970-1985 and then Assistant Concertmaster 1985-1987,
Atlanta Symphony Concertmaster 1990-2008)
Father Stanislaw Arzewski was pianist for the
Krakow Philharmonic. Studied first with with Eugenia Uminska (1910-1980) of the
Krakow Music Academy. in 1957, with the help of Isaac Stern, went to Israel where
she studied with Odeon Partos (1907-1977). Then to the Juilliard School in about
1960, followed by the New England Conservatory. Arzewski’s lifelong devotion to
Bach led to her recording the complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin in
2010 (thanks to
Paul Krzywicki for information)
1987-1990
Atherton, Mark
(Maine 1958- )
double bass (also Indianapolis Symphony, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra - the touring
orchestra of the Boston Pops)
Studied at Boston University BA magna cum laude. Married to cellist
wife Linda Atherton, who playes in the Cleveland Chamber Collective
and other groups based in Cleveland.
Second bassoon, sitting next to George Goslee, David McGill, and now
John Clouser (also Detroit Symphony Second bassoon about 1972-1981,
Goldovsky Opera Company - a touring opera
group based in New York City, Virginia Symphony)
Studied at Wayne State University - Detroit BMus Ed.
flute, piccolo (also Cleveland Orchestra 1937-1941, Pittsburgh Symphony
1941-1943, CBS radio Orchestra about 1946-1951, Chicago Symphony 1951-1953,
New York Philharmonic 1965-1983)
Studied at the Curtis Institute, graduating class of 1937.
1937-1941
Baldwin, Martha
(Canada )
cello (also Canton Symphony - Ohio Principal cello, Wheeling Symphony
Principal cello - West Virginia, Cleveland Chamber Symphony Co-Principal
cello, Cleveland Chamber Symphony Assistant Principal cello)
Studied at the Shepherd School of Music - Rice University and
the Cleveland Institute of Music MMus in 2000.
summer 2001-present
Bandy, Albert
violin
1944-1945
Bandy, Janos or John
thanks for this photo from Jeffrey Selim, friend of Janos Bandy
cello
(also Chicago Symphony cello 1965-1984 under
Jean Martinon and Sir Georg Solti)
Second Concertmaster (also Boston Symphony 1920-1923, New York
Philharmonic 1934-1959)
Barozzi was one of 17 violinists hired for the Boston Symphony
1920-1921 season, following the 1920 BSO musicians strike.
After leaving the BSO, Barozzi pursued a solo violin career,
playing in Carnegie Hall in 1924, and with the Reading Symphony -
Pennsylvania in 1926 and 1927. New York reviews were mildly
favorable: "...as an artist, be still avoids summits of
musical thought, preferring the sunlit foothills..." said
the New York Times 57.
double bass (also Charleston Symphony Principal double bass 1999-2002,
trained in the New World Symphony - Miami 1998-1999)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1997. From a musical
family, both parents are oboe players.
2002-2006
sadly, Charles Barr, an active bicyclist was hit and killed on August 11, 2006.
Contributions to endow a named chair to honor him can be made to the Charles
Barr Memorial Chair at The Cleveland Orchestra.
Principal trumpet (also Saint Louis Symphony, San Francisco Symphony)
1924-1925
Bassett, Frank Newton
(Minnesota 1883-1971)
bass trombone 1934-1937. (also San Francisco 1915 Panama–Pacific International
Exposition orchestra bass trombone. also, when the San Francisco Symphony shut
down during the 1934-1935 season, Frank Bassett became bass
trombone of the Cleveland Orchestra 1934-1937)
Principal trombone (also Cincinnati Symphony
trombone, Metropolitan Opera trombone, Boston Symphony Assistant
Principal trombone 1914-1918, Philadelphia Orchestra Principal
trombone 1930-1931)
Taught trombone at the Curtis Institute in 1930. When in
Philadelphia, according to
trombonist Harold McKinney, Simone Belgiorno "only lasted
14 weeks with Stokowski...", so apparently did not finish
the 1930-1931 season in which Stokowski fired a dozen other
orchestra musicians.
1926-1928
Benkoe, Emery A. (1884-1975)
violin
1918-1919
Benkovic, Vaclav
(then Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia 1942- )
photo by Herbert Ascherman visit www.ascherman.com
violin (also Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic, and in
Canada Baroque Strings of Vancouver Concertmaster, Vancouver Symphony
Assistant Concertmaster)
Studied at the University of Bratislava - Slovakia Master in music
performance.
cello 1991-2001, Assistant Principal cello in 2001-present
(also Calgary Philharmonic Principal cello about 1989-1991)
Studied at the Conservatoire de Montréal, and the Cleveland Institute
of Music. Recorded Café Music by Paul Schoenfield (Innova
Recordings) and Leonard Bernstein's Trio for Violin, Cello and
Piano (NAXOS).
Principal tuba (also Buffalo Philharmonic Principal tuba early 1960s,
San Francisco Opera Principal tuba about 1965-1967,
United States Army Field Band.
also in San Francisco the Camara Brass Quintet:
William Sabatini horn,
Wilbur Sudmeier trombone,
Edward Haug trumpet, Ronald Bishop tuba and
Chris G. Bogios trumpet)
Studied at the Eastman School of Music BMus and Performer's Certificate,
and University of Illinois Master of Science.
Teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Conservatory of Music -
Oberlin College - Ohio.
violin 1924-1938, 1945-1969, horn 1941-1964 (Blabolil played only
the violin in the orchestra in the 1920s and 1930s, and not both
violin and horn)
Studied first with his Czech musician parents Joseph and Anna
Blabolil. Charles Blabolil taught at the Hruby Conservatory of Music,
Cleveland in 1924 with the
Hruby family.
1924-1938, 1941-1969
Blackman, Alexander
(Lithuania 1896- )
viola (also Boston Symphony)
1920-1921
Bladet, Robert
flute
1928-1929
Bloom, Myron
horn 1954-1955, Principal horn 1955-1977, (also New Orleans Symphony horn
1949-1954, Casals Festival Orchestra - Puerto Rico Principal horn 1977,
l'Orchestre de Paris Principal horn 1977-1985)
Studied with James Chambers, later Principal horn of the Philadelphia
Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic.
Principal clarinet (also Garde républicaine Band - Paris 1915
with fellow-clarinetist and later Philadelphia Orchestra
musician
Lucien Cailliet
. Diaghilev's Ballet Russe 1916 US tour under
Ernest Ansermet, Philadelphia Orchestra 1917-1922 and 1924-1930,
toured France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and England 1922-1924,
CBS Radio orchestra 1931-1933, Cleveland Orchestra Principal clarinet
1933-1941, NBC Symphony - Toscanini South American tour 1940, then back to
the CBS Radio orchestra 1942)
Studied at the Paris Conservatoire, Premier prix in the 1913 Concour.
violin (also trained in the New World Symphony - Florida. active
in music festivals, including he Aspen Music Festival, Beijing
International Music Festival Norfolk Chamber Music Festival - Virginia,
Tanglewood Music Festival)
Studied at the Shepherd School of Music - Rice University BMus
and the Juilliard School MMus. Gave US premiere of the
Augusta Read Thomas (1964- ) The Soul is Light,
for oboe, violin, and harp.
March 2011- present
Bornstein, Milton Irving
(Pennsylvania 1898-1969)
violin (also Philadelphia Orchestra violin 1921-1925)
Studied at the Philadelphia Musical Academy about 1915-1918.
Bornstein later became a sessions musician in New York City
in the 1940s.
1920-1921
Bortolamasi, Arturo Alberto (Albert)
(Italy 1882- )
double bass (also a musician in the Chicago area, and later in New
York City)
1923-1924, 1929-1936
Boswell, Guy M.
(Ohio 1907-1974)
trombone
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1932, same class as
John Coffee, bass trombone of the Cleveland Orchestra and
of the Boston Symphony.
1932-1935
Both, (Julius) Emerson
(Wisconsin 1902-1964) died age only 61
Principal clarinet (also NBC radio staff orchestra of Chicago.
George Szell sought to re-engage Emerson Both as Principal clarinet
of the Cleveland Orchestra in 1946, but Both preferred the NBC position
which paid as well and was also a 52 week employment, which Cleveland
was not until the late 1960s.)
violin (joined the Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorf on of the
few non-harp musicians of the Cleveland Orchestra)
Studied at the Oberlin College - Conservatory of Music as
a teen, then she studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music
and later the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music.
1943-1975
Bottero, Alessandro
(Italy )
violin (also Chicago Symphony violin 1959-1961)
1956-1959
Boyd, Robert Farrell
(Illinois 1921-1989)
Principal trombone (Szell appointed Boyd as Principal and to make room for Boyd, moved
Merritt Dittert
to Bass trombone where he served for 20 more seasons 134, outlasting
George Szell. Robert Boyd was also Assistant Principal trombone of the
New York Philharmonic 1945-1946)
Studied at the Eastman School of Music. Taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
1948-1989
Boyko, Lisa A. (Ohio 1963- )
Born in Cleveland but grew up in Tucson
viola (also New Orleans Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra)
Studied in Vienna at Vienna at the Musikgymnasium and the
Hochschule für Musik. Also Cleveland Institute of Music
BMus 1985. She is also active in local musical education.
Principal horn (also Scottish Orchestra, Edinburgh, Queens
Hall Orchestra Principal horn under Sir Henry Wood, London
Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Principal horn,
Cleveland Orchestra Principal horn 1934-1936 under Artur Rodzinski,
Janssen Symphony Orchestra - Los Angeles in 1940s,
Los Angeles Philharmonic Principal horn in 1930s to 1950s, active
Hollywood session musician, particularly at Twentieth Century
Fox studios)
Studied at the Royal Academy of Music - London in the 1910s.
uring World War 1, Alfred Brain joined the Scots Guards,
and was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal for bravery.
1934-1936
Braunstein, Mark
Assistant Principal viola
1984-1993
Brennand, Charles
cello
1955-1956
Brennand, Tom
Principal viola 1939-1942 viola 1937-1939, 1942-1965
Frank Brouk, left with
Roy Waas in Cleveland, 1949
Principal horn 1947-1950, horn 1946-1947 (also Indianapolis
Symphony Principal horn about 1939-1942, Rochester Philharmonic 1941-1942,
Chicago Symphony Principal horn 1962-1963 and 1965-1966, Chicago horn 1961-1962,
1963-1965, 1966-1978)
Son of Bohemian immigrants, Brouk studied with fellow Bohemian Frank Kryl
in Chicago, and with Louis Dufrasne who also taught CSO horns
Philip Farkas, Helen Kotas, and Clyde Miller. Brouk was joint owner of the
Carl Geyer horn store in Chicago.
Associate Concertmaster (also New Orleans Symphony
Concertmaster 1954-1955, Philadelphia Orchestra Concertmaster
1959-1966, founded Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia 1961-1965, which
caused friction with the Philadelphia Orchestra, leading to
Brusilow's departure, Dallas Symphony conductor 1970-1973)
Studied at Philadelphia Musical Academy and the Curtis Institute
Class of 1943.
Principal harp 1918-1919, harp 1919-1921
(later a soprano. and founded the Cafarelli Opera Company)
1918-1921
Cahill, Vaughan Dabeney
(Ohio 1889-1973)
1914 Picture supplied by Derek Cahill
viola (also headed the Federal Music Project in Cleveland in the
late 1930s; first conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra,
Nikolai Sokoloff was director of the Federal Music Project
starting in 1935 11)
Studied at at Hiram College - Ohio. Taught at the Lakewood School of
Music - Ohio, the Conservatory of Baldwin-Wallace College - Ohio,
Rice University - Texas. For much of his adult life, Cahill earned
his living as an accountant, while maintaining a musical life through
his violin teaching.
1918-1919
Caillon, Liliane
violin
1964-1965
Callot, André
violin
1934-1940
Camus, Elizabeth A.
(Louisiana 1947- )
photograph by Roger Mastroianni, n.d.
oboe (also Atlanta Symphony Principal oboe in 1970s,
San Antonio Symphony Principal oboe)
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Active in youth
teaching, including the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra
and in her home town with the Greater New Orleans Youth
Orchestra, where she also played.
double bass (joined the Cleveland Orchestra while studying at the
New England Conservatory)
Studied at the Juilliard School BMus 2000, New England Conservatory.
Teaches at Cleveland State University School of Music and the
Cleveland Institute of Music. Active at summer music festivals
including the Aspen Music Festival - Colorado.
(1912-1973) died at age 60 from injuries from an auto accident.
Principal bassoon (also Minneapolis Symphony bassoon 1934-1935,
Principal bassoon with Toscanini's NBC Symphony. Carmen also played
in the Symphony of the Air's Far East tour in May and June, 1955, New.
also Casals Festival Orchestra, also Principal bassoon of the
York City Opera Orchestra, New York City Ballet Orchestra 1971-1974)
Taught at the Yale University School of Music.
1942-1943
Carmen, Muriel
viola
1951-1995
Casabona, Alberto
violin
1947-1954
Cayting, Stanley
violin
1920-1922
Ceasar, James
violin
1940-1943, 1946-1949
Cerino, Arthur (or "Arturo")
(Italy 1887-1975)
Arthur Cerino in 1921
Principal horn 1919-1920, horn 1925-1927 - in Cleveland, Nikolai Sokoloff
went through four Principal horns in the first four seasons and Arthur Cerino
was the second of the four (also prior to Cleveland,
horn in the Rialto Theater orchestra
in Manhattan, New York playing five shows each day. also the Paul Whiteman Orchestra
in New York City in 1924 69. Beginning 1930, Arthur Cerino was a
musician in the NBC radio staff orchestra in New York City. He then joined
Toscanini's NBC Symphony in 1937 - one of the few musicians who served
with Toscanini during the full term of the Orchestra 1937-1954)
Cerino emigrated to New York City in 1907. US Army 1918-1919 and was buried in
the national cemetery on Long Island, New York.
1919-1920, 1925-1927
Arthur Cerino from a 1938 NBC Symphony publicity drawing 145
acting Associate Concertmaster 1989-1990, Associate Concertmaster
1990-1995 including during the illness of Daniel Majeske, acting
Concertmaster 1993-1995 (also Atlanta Symphony Associate
Concertmaster 1984-1990, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Concertmaster 1995-present)
Studied at the Montréal Conservatoire 1973-1979, admitted to the
Curtis Institute in 1981, where he graduated in the Class of 1984.
Certificate of Honor at the Tchaikovsky Competition - Moscow in 1986,
laureate of the Montreal International Competition in 1987.
1989-1995
Chalifoux, Alice
(Alabama 1908-2008) long serving and long-lived
Principal harp 1931-1974, keyboard 1931-1932
Served under the first six Conductors of the Cleveland Orchestra:
Nikolai Sokoloff, Artur Rodzinski, Erich Leinsdorf, George Szell, Pierre Boulez,
Lorin Maazel. Famous for both her musicianship and her salty toung. Tought at the
Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin College Conservatory, the Conservatory at
Baldwin-Wallace College and for more than 50 years at the Salzedo Harp Colony -
Maine.
Principal clarinet 1942-1944 (also orchestra of the New York Radio City Music
Hall 1937-about 1940, Pittsburgh Symphony about 1940-1942, Cleveland Orchestra
1942-1944, Metropolitan Opera 1944-1950, and briefly for the New York
Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Principal clarinet 1950-1970)
Studied at the Naples Conservatory - Italy graduating in 1930.
1942-1944
Civiletti, Charles
(Italy 1879-1957)
double bass (somehow ended up in the WPA orchestra in Scranton, Pennsylvania in the
late 1930s and early 1940s)
Emigrated to the US in 1890 at age 11.
1918-1928
Clair (Feldman), Nathalie
(New York 1922-1966)
double bass (also Principal double bass of l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal - Canada
1952-1966 144)
Died in Montréal, Québec suddenly in 1966, age only 43.
Lead trombone in a long list of Chicago bands prior to
World War 1: T. P. Brooke Band, Johnny Hand Band (successor to
the John A. Hand Band), Weldon's Band (Second Regiment Band of
Chicago).
1920-1926
Clarke, Harry Francis
(Ohio 1884-1967)
thanks to his student Bruce E. McGarvey for photo
double bass (also a band leader in World War 1)
Clarke was an active music teacher in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Cleveland public schools, including at Lakewood, East High School
and Lincoln High School.
1918-1922
Clebsch, Hans F. (1966- )
horn (also Houston Ballet, Houston Grand Opera, Mexico City Philharmonic
1996-present
Clendenning, Elizabeth
violinn
1959-1961, 1963-1967
Clouser, John D. (Massachusetts 1962- )
Principal bassoon (also Memphis Symphony, Montreal Symphony)
Studied at Gordon College - Massachusetts, Temple University - Philadelphia.
Bass trombone. succeeded by William Lilleback (Valdemar
Durck Lilleback) who had been Bass trombone with the
Boston Symphony. Coffee succeeded Lilleback in Boston 1941-1952; a
sort of player swap. In 1941, John Coffey joined several other first
chair musicians, including
Merritt Dittert
trombone,
Louis Davidson
trumpet,
Leonard Sharrow
bassoon, and
Rudolph Puletz
horn to go to
Argentina to play under Arturo Toscanini at the Teatro Colon.
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1932, same class as
Guy Boswell
, trombone of the Cleveland Orchestra.
Doug Yeo, Bass trombone of the Boston Symphony wrote: "Bartok
>Concerto for Orchestra was first performed in 1944, with John
Coffey being the first bass trombonist to negotiate the gliss from
low B to F. (visit Doug Yeo's excellent site
www.yeodoug.com )
1937-1941
Cohen, Franklin R.
(New York 1946- )
photograph by Roger Mastroianni, n.d.
Principal clarinet (also American Symphony Principal clarinet,
Baltimore Symphony Principal clarinet)
His early clarinet instructors included two Cleveland Principal clarinets,
Aaron Gorodner, then at the Juilliard
School including with
Bernard Portnoy.
First Prize winner, Clarinet at ARD Music Competition, Munich 1968.
Head of Clarinet Department 58 at the Cleveland Institute
of Music. Recorded, with violinist daughter Diana, Osvaldo Golijov (1960- ):
Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind in the version for klezmer-style
clarinet & quartet on Franklin Cohen CD label (see at right).
1976-present
Collins, Alan
cello
1945-1947
Collins, Kathleen
(Michigan about 1968- )
violin (also Hong Kong Philharmonic, Fort Worth Symphony)
Studied at Indiana University BMus, and the Cleveland Institute
of Music MMus 1995. Hers is a musical family, including her
husband Jonathan Fields trumpet player, and their three children
each of whom plays at least one instrument.
viola (also Denver Symphony Principal viola and at Santa Fe Opera,
Dallas Symphony Principal viola, Filarmonica de las Americas -
Mexico City Principal viola, Philadelphia Orchestra viola 1981-1983)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1976 (he was also offered
a scholarship at the Juilliard School, but selected Curtis 88).
1988-present
Connor, Ethan
double bass
1978-
Cooley, Carlton Samuel
(New Jersey 1898-1981)
Cooley from a 1938 NBC Symphony publicity drawing 145
Principal viola 1920-1921, 1923-1937, Assistant Concertmaster 1921-1923
(also Philadelphia Orchestra viola 1919-1920, 1954-1956, Principal
viola 1956-1963, also NBC Symphony Principal viola 1937-1954)
Studied at the Philadelphia Musical Academy and at the
Institute of Musical Art (later Juilliard). Cooley also
recorded with Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra his own
composition: the Aria and Dance for Viola and Orchestra,
which Nikolai Sokoloff had also performed in 1926 with the
Cleveland Orchestra.
trumpet 1972-1981, Assistant Principal trumpet 1980-2002
1972-2002
Cox, John
viola (also Symphonia Quartet:
Kurt Loebel first,
Elmer Setzer second,
John Cox viola,
Thomas Liberti cello. Also London Symphony,
Kansas City Philharmonic Principal viola, Baltimore Symphony
Principal viola, New Orleans Philharmonic Principal viola, Oberlin
String Quartet:
Stuart Canin - later Concertmaster of the San
Francisco Symphony - first, David Cerone second
John Cox viola, Mary Fraley Johnson cello)
Studied at the Music Academy of the West - California in 1950.
University of California, Royal Academy of Music -
London, Conservatoire de Paris.
Taught at the Conservatory of Oberlin College.
1956-1959 1965-1966
Cras, Roman (or Romain)
(Belgium 1867- )
Fourth horn (also Chicago Symphony horn 1904-1907,
a theater musician in New York City
in 1910s, Philadelphia Orchestra horn 1919-1920)
1922-1923, 1926-1929
Curry, Ralph
(Pennsylvania 1955- )
cello (also as a student, played in the Reichenfeld String Sinfonietta
in his native Pittsburgh 116, Colorado Philharmonic
Principal cello, Detroit Symphony, Amici Quartet since 1987:
Takako Masame first,
Miho Hashizume second,
Lynne Ramsey viola,
Ralph Curry cello)
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music. From a musical family,
his brother William Henry Curry is Associate Conductor of the
North Carolina Symphony.
violin (also New Orleans Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra 1967-1991)
Studied at the Royal Schools of Music, London 1950-1952.
Patricia O'Carroll and Maureen O'Carroll were musicians in
the New Zealand National Orchestra. As a student, Cathleen
O'Carroll gave recitals with the young Joan Sutherland. Cathleen
O'Carroll Dalschaert and Stephane Dalschaert toured together in Europe
and then Joined the New Orleans Symphony in the late 1950s, the
Cleveland Orchestra together 1960-1967 and then the Philadelphia
Orchestra.
violin (also Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra - Brussels Concertmaster,
New Orleans Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra 1967-2007)
Born into a musical family with his 7 siblings all playing instruments,
he studied at the Brussels Conservatoire. Well-known as a crafter of
violin bows.
1960-1967
Dalton, Martha
harp
1947-1951, 1952-1981
Damoulakis, Marc Hugh
(Massachusetts 1977-)
percussion (also New York Philharmonic percussion as a regular extra,
including on tours. also Long Island Philharmonic
Principal timpani, Harrisburg Symphony - Pennsylvania Assistant Principal
percussion. Damoulakis was also Co-Principal percussion of the New World
Symphony - the Florida training orchestra for young professionals)
Damoulakis studied at the Manhattan School of Music. He is also
active in summer music festivals, including the
Spoleto Music Festival in Italy, the Pacific Music Festival - California
and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony - Idaho. With the New World Symphony,
he recorded White Mares of the Moon by Dan Welcher (1948- )
Texas based composer who also studied at the Manhattan School of Music
- see the CD at right.
2006-present
Darling, James
(Ohio 1939- )
photo by Herbert Ascherman visit www.ascherman.com
Fourth trumpet, Second cornet
Studied at the University of Illinois and the University of Kentucky.
Also taught at at the Conservatory - Baldwin-Wallace College - Ohio for
three decades.
Principal cello (also Philadelphia Orchestra cello 1916-1919 when Stokowski
released de Gomez to join the Cleveland Orchestra. also San Francisco
Symphony cello 1911-1915. also San Francisco quartet
comprising
Louis Ford first,
Emil Rossett second,
Clarence Evans viola
(who was Principal viola of the San Francisco Symphony) and
Victor de Gomez cello. He also played in Hollywood
at the Paramount Studio orchestra, summers of 1938 and 1939)
Studied at the University of California, Berkeley about 1908-1911.
1919-1939
deGranda, Alvaro O. (Cuba 1940- )
violin 1966-1968, Assistant Concertmaster 1968-1999, violin 1999-2005
(also Houston Symphony
1960-1962, Saint Louis Symphony Assistant Concertmaster 1962-1966)
horn (also Canton Symphony - Ohio Principal, Ohio Chamber
Orchestra Principal horn)
Studied at Kent State University BMus Ed, Cleveland Institute of
Music MMus.
1984-present
Dembinsky, William
violin
1929-1932
Demuth, Frederick Joseph
(Ohio 1884-1946)
violin 1919-1920, viola 1920-1921 and 1922-1923
(also Statler Hotel Orchestra - Cleveland 1915-1919,
Chicago Symphony violin 1909-1911)
violin 1919-1920, viola 1920-1921, 1922-1923
1919-1921, 1922-1923
Denecke, Henry Jr.
(New York 1911-2000)
Principal timpani (also Minneapolis Symphony 1941-1952, Pittsburgh Symphony
probably 1937-1941, conductor of the Minneapolis Civic Orchestra in
1952, conductor of the Cedar Rapids Symphony - Iowa 1953-1969)
Studied first with his violinist father Henry Denecke Sr., a
theater orchestra musician in New York City.
1936-1937
Deninzon, Vladimir V.
(Russia - now Uzbekistan 1950- )
photograph by Roger Mastroianni, n.d.
violin (also Leningrad Philharmonic, Kirov Theater Orchestra,
Leningrad Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Early Music Ensemble
of Leningrad, Severance Trio with his pianist wife Lyubov Deninzon
and cello
Ralph Curry)
violin (also Chicago Civic Orchestra in 1941, Dallas Symphony,
Tulsa Philharmonic - Oklahoma, Elkhart Symphony - Indiana,
Abilene Philharmonic -
Texas Principal Second violin in 1950s and 1960s 98)
Denoff taught music in the Abilene, Texas school system in the
1950s and 1960s.
1945-1946
dePasquale, Ellen (Pennsylvania 1973- )
daughter of
Robert dePasquale of the Philadelphia Orchestra
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1994, Indiana University. Active
in the Marlboro Music Festival for 4 years, Caramoor Festival - New York,
Evian Music Festival - France, Las Vegas Music Festival.
March 1999-2007
dePolis, Frank
horn
1921-1924
deSano, James Anthony
(Ohio 1944- )
Principal trombone 1989-2003, Assistant Principal trombone 1970-1989
(also Syracuse Symphony Principal trombone 1964-1970)
Studied at Ithaca College BMus Ed 1966, Eastman School of Music
MMus.
1970-2003
de Santis, Louis
(Italy 1880-prior to 1960)
Principal clarinet (also Chicago Lyric Opera early 1920s,
Saint Louis Symphony in about 1924-1926, Cleveland Orchestra
Principal clarinet 1926-1929. At the end of the 1929-1930 season,
Leopold Stokowski made sweeping changes to the Philadelphia Orchestra
roster, including replacement of several Principals, including
Principal clarinet Daniel Bonade. Stokowski hired Louis deSantis,
but this lasted only one season 1930-1931. de Santis then was
CBS radio orchestra Principal clarinet under Howard Barlow.
Member of the Philadelphia region WPA Orchestra in early 1940s)
Principal viola (also the Budapest Opera and the
Budapest Philharmonic. In the 1920s, Marcel Dick
became Concertmaster (Principal) of the Vienna Symphony.
Studied at the Royal Academy, Budapest about 1912-1915, studying
violin and with Zoltan Kodaly, he studied composition
1943-1949
Dimoff, Maximilian R.
(Washington 1968- )
Principal bass (also San Antonio Symphony Assistant Principal bass while
he was still a student at Northwestern University, then Principal bass,
Seattle Symphony Orchestra 1993-1997)
Studied at Northwestern University. A musical family, his wife Amber is
a violinist in the Akron Symphony - Ohio, his daughter, Isabel a cellist,
and his son Xavier also plays the string bass.
1997-present
Dinger, Nahoun J.
cello
1921-1924
Dittert, Merritt W.
(Illinois 1903-1973)
photo circa 1962 courtesy of his son Ronald Dittert
Principal trombone 1937-1948, bass trombone 1948-1968.
(also Saint Louis Symphony Principal trombone)
In 1941, Merritt Dittert joined several other first
chair musicians, including
John Coffey bass trombone,
Louis Davidson
trumpet,
Leonard Sharrow
bassoon, and Rudolph Puletz horn to go to
Argentina to play under Arturo Toscanini at the Teatro Colon.
violin (also Akron Symphony Assistant Concertmaster. Active in
music festivals including the Festival der Zukunft - Switzerland,
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival - Washington,
Mainly Mozart Festival - San Diego, and the La Jolla Chamber
Music Festival)
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
October 2008-present
Dolnick, Samuel M.
violin
1921-1922
Domb, Daniel
First Assistant Principal cello
1971-1973
d'Orio, John
horn (also Philadelphia Orchestra horn 1907-1918, 1921-1928,
1931-1932)
In the 1920-1921 season in which John d'Orio played, the
horn lineup was Wendell Hoss, Morris Speinson, Alphonse J. Pelletier,
John d'Orio and Robert H. Brown.
1920-1921
Dosch, William M.
(Illinois 1884-1954)
William Dosch as Librarian
violin also Librarian and Personnel manager 1942-1954 (also
Minneapolis Symphony violin under Emil Oberhoffer 1913-1919,
was a theater orchestra violin in Chicago in 1920)
Died during the 1953-1954 season on March 21, 1954 following surgery.
flute, piccolo (also Los Angeles Philharmonic Principal flute 1947-1971)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1930. Drexler also studied with Georges Barrère
in New York City. Drexler was active in summer music festivals,
including the Ojai Music Festival - California.
1932-1937
Drossin, Julius
(Pennsylvania 1918-2007)
Julius Drossin, left with follow composer and long-time Cleveland Orchestra
program annotator Klaus George Roy
cello
Studied at the University of Pennsylvania with Harl McDonald
BMus 1938; Western Reserve University - Cleveland MA 1951,
Ph.D. 1956. Dr. Drossin was Chairman of the Music Department
of Cleveland State University and was an active composer
including of the opera Spinoza. Chairman of the
Cleveland Composers' Guild.
1948-1957
Drucker, Ernest
violin
1942-1943
Drucker, Vladimir M. (1897-1974)
Principal trumpet (also New York Symphony, San Francisco Symphony,
Los Angeles Philharmonic)
Concertmaster (also Dallas Symphony Concertmaster 1947-1949 under Dorati,
followed Dorati to the Minneapolis Symphony as Concertmaster 1949-1960,
Cleveland Orchestra Concertmaster 1960-1969, New York Philharmonic
Concertmaster 1971-1974.
Emigrating from Russia as an infant, began studied in 1930 with Cuban
violinist and composer Amadeo Roldán (1900-1939)85. Studied
at the Curtis Institute Class of 1942. After Cleveland, Rafael Druian
taught at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California,
and later at Boston University and finally at his alma mater, the
Curtis Institute.
1960-1969
du Rocher, Harry
Principal percussion 1920-1922, percussion 1920-1922
1918-1922
Duff, Cloyd (Ohio 1915-2000)
Principal timpani (also Indianapolis Symphony 1938-1942,
All-American Youth Orchestra in both the summer, 1940 South American
tour and summer, 1941 transcontinental US tour)
Studied at the Curtis Institute with Oscar Schwar, graduating in the
Class of 1938. A famous event: Joe Adato tells of a performance of the
Strauss Symphonia Domestica in 1962. The timpani part has a
a D-major scale pedaled across the two center drums. "Just as
the orchestra arrived at that passage, the head on the 28-inch drum
broke! Cloyd still managed to play the rest of the composition with
only three working drums. I might add that he played it better with
three drums than most timpanists can play it with four..."
Dufrasne was a famous horn teacher, students including Philip Farkas,
Helen Kotas, Clyde Miller and Frank Brouk, future Principal horns
of leading orchestras including Chicago, Dallas and Cleveland.
1922-1925
Dufrasne, Maurice (Belgium 1895- ) brother of
Louis Dufrasne
cello
1922-1926
Duhamel, Gaston
(France 1874-after 1951)
Poor quality passport photo of Gaston Duhamel in 1923
Principal bassoon (also long-time Principal bassoon Cincinnati
Symphony under
Frank Van der Stucken about 1900-1922, and
Principal bassoon Rochester Philharmonic about 1922-1923)
Taught at the Cincinnati Conservatory abpout 1903-1922, and at
the Eastman School of Music 1922-1926.
Studied at the New England Conservatory BMus 1998. Granted a Fulbright
scholarship, she studied at the Royal Conservatory - The Hague,
Netherlands MMus 2000. Active in Summer festivals, including
the Interlochen Festival, Encore School for Strings - Ohio,
Sarasota Music Festival - Florida, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival
- Germany, and the Academy of Twentieth Century Music.
violin including Assistant Principal Second violin (also
Owensboro Symphony - Kentucky, Evansville Philharmonic -
Indiana, Saint Louis Symphony 1983-1985. He also plays the
guitar, banjo, and mandolin in concerts and with the
Cleveland Orchestra as needed)
Studied at the Juilliard School and Indiana University.
viola (also Saint Louis Symphony Principal viola 1978- ,
Rochester Philharmonic Principal viola, Baltimore Symphony
Principal viola about 1975-1978, in summers,
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
Principal viola for more than thirty years, Chautauqua
String Quartet)
Studied at at Ohio State University, and the Curtis Institute
Class of 1959, the same class as violinists Jaime Laredo and
Jerome Rosen, and the Cleveland Institute of Music.
with Louis Edlin, right with Victor de Gomez, Principal cello, left
Concertmaster 1919-1923 (also the Arnold Volpe Orchestra
about 1903, New York Symphony 1911-1913, Concertmaster of the
Russian Symphony Society of New York
1913-1914, following Nikolai Sokoloff in
that position, Philharmonic Society of New York 1914-1919, New York Trio:
Louis Edlin violin, Cornelius Van Vliet (1886-1963) cello, Clarence Adler
(1886-1969) piano)
Studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Guillaume Rémy 1906-1908, and
went to Berlin in 1909-1910 where he was one of two official students
of Fritz Kreisler (the other being Samuel Dushkin) 2.
Studied at the Musikhochschule - Stuttgart, Germany Artist's Diploma
in 1961.
1967-May 2008
Eifert, Otto
bassoon
1952-1953
Eiler, Oscar John
(Wisconsin 1883-after 1950)
Principal cello 1918-1919, cello 1919-1921 (also Statler Hotel orchestra -
Cleveland 1910, Philadelphia Orchestra 1912-1914, 1917-1928, active in
the Philharmonic Quartet - Cleveland during 1917-1928,
which membership changed during its life, but which at that time was
Sol Marcosson first,
Charles Rychlik second, Johann Beck viola,
Oscar Eiler cello, also the Russian Trio: Ninia Mesirow piano,
Michel Wilkomlrsky violin and Oscar Eiler cello in 1930s,
Civic Opera Company of Chicago, Cincinnati Orchestra, Nashville
Symphony)
Studied cello in Germany with Carl Schroeder (1848-1935).
Studied at the Juilliard School BMus 2000 and the Cleveland Institute of
Music MMus 2003. Also active in Summer music festivals, including the
Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West - California,
Sarasota Music Festival - Florida, and Spoleto USA - South Carolina.
February 2007-present
Elliot, Harry R.
cello
1921-1923
Emelianoff, Andre (New York 1942- )
cello (also New York Chamber Symphony Principal cello,
New Jersey Symphony Principal cello, Musica Sacra Principal cello,
and the DeCapo Chamber Players: Andre Emelianoff cello, Jerry
Kirkbride clarinet, Joel Lester violin, Patricia Spencer flute)
Studied at the University of Iowa. Teaches at the Juilliard
School.
Principal cello (also City Center Opera - New York Principal Cello,
Dallas Symphony 1948-1949, a New York sessions musician in 1950s,
Boston Symphony Principal cello 1964-present)
Studied at the Studied Tanglewood Music Center summer 1948, and
the Settlement School of Music - Philadelphia, Philadelphia
Musical Academy, the Curtis Institute Class of 1952. Made a concert tour
of Europe in 1954-1955. Among his fine recordings were the Leon Kirchner:
Concerto For Violin, Cello And Piano with Gilbert Kalish piano
and Malcolm Lowe violin, the Nutcracker and the American Album
with Seiji Ozawa (see right)
1961-1964
Evans, Louis
cello
1921-1922
Eyle, Felix (Poland - now in the Ukraine 1899-1988)
Second Concertmaster 1933-1943, Assistant Concertmaster 1943-1944,
Second Concertmaster 1944-1945 (also Vienna Opera, Vienna Philharmonic,
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Concertmaster 1945-1957. Eyle was also
Metropolitan orchestra manager 1957-1970)
Studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and the Performing Arts
with Arnold Rosé. Felix Eyle is shown at left with his
Guadagnini violin which had belonged to Mahler's niece and Arnold Rosé's
wife Alma Rosé. For more than a decade, and into his mid-eighties,
Felix Eyle taught violin at Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York
1973-1986.
viola (also Pittsburgh Symphony, Atlanta Symphony Assistant Principal
viola, Cantilena Quartet: Eileen Davis first,
Leonard Samuels second, Yarden Faden viola,
Harvey Wolfe cello)
Studied at the Northwestern University School of Music.
1966-2006
Farkas, Philip (Illinois 1914-1992)
Principal horn (also Kansas City Philharmonic Principal horn 1933-1936
starting at age 18, Chicago Symphony 1936-1941 succeeding Pellegrino Lecce,
Cleveland Orchestra Principal horn 1941-1945, Boston Symphony Co-Principal
horn with Willem Valkenier in the 1945-1946, returned to Cleveland as Principal
horn 1946-1947, Chicago Symphony Principal horn 1947-1960. The taught at Indiana
University 1960-1984)
Studied with Belgian-born Chicago horn teacher Louis Dufrasne, who also taught two
other CSO Principal horns: Helen Kotas Hirsh and Frank Brouk.
1941-1945, 1946-1947
Farrar, Mabelle
violin
1918-1922
Fath, Philip (New York 1929- )
Assistant Principal clarinet (also Principal clarinet of the
San Francisco Symphony 1956-1964, Co-Principal clarinet of the
San Francisco with Robert McGinnis 1964-1969, clarinet of the
San Francisco Opera 1956-about 2000).
Taught at University of California - Berkeley, Stanford University
and San Francisco State University.
trombone (also US Army Band "Pershing's Own" - at the same time as
Boston Symphony tubist Chester Schmitz
- and San Antonio Symphony
prior to Cleveland. also Baltimore Symphony Principal trombone about 1970-1980,
Co-Principal trombone and Assistant Principal trombone about 1980-1986. also
National Ballet Orchestra of Washington DC and RTÉ Symphony - Ireland)
Studied at the Eastman School of Music: Performer's Certificate and
BMusEd and at the American University - Washington MMusicology.
Teaches at the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, and is an active composer.
1968-1970
Fichtenova, Eugenia
violin
1947-1948
Fiedelholtz, Nathan
(then Russia, now Belarus 1897-1966)
Fifth bass (also played in New York City theater orchestras and
the Brunswick Hotel, Boston orchestra)
photo by Herbert Ascherman visit www.ascherman.com
piccolo 1989-present, Principal piccolo 1989-present
(also New Jersey Symphony, Madison Symphony - Wisconsin Principal
flute, New York Philharmonic acting piccolo)
Studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music BMus in 1983 and the
Juilliard School MMus.
Active in chamber music recitals, including with her husband,
pianist and composer Nicolas Underhill.
1989-present
Fiore, Gerald F.
Principal bass
1918-1930
Fiore, Joseph S.
Principal flute 1918-1919, flute 1919-1921, Principal piccolo 1919-1921
bass, succeeded by
Derek Zadinsky (also played with the American Symphony Orchestra,
Detroit Symphony about 1966-1967. Active in Summer music festivals, including the
Aspen Music Festival - Colorado and Lake George Opera
Festival - New York)
Studied first with his father, Theodore Flowerman Principal double bass
of the New York City Ballet, and then for one year at the
Juilliard School From his interest in pre-baroque, he published
Music from the Renaissance and the Baroque: Quartets for Double
Basses.
Assistant Principal timpani 1991-present (also Asheville Symphony - North
Carolina Symphony, Principal percussion, Principal timpani,
Norrkoping Symphony - Sweden 1986-1987, Fort Wayne Philharmonic -
Indiana 1987-1989, Alabama Symphony Principal timpani 1989-1991)
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music BMus 1986. Started
Freer Percussion Products to make percussion products embodying
his ideas as to percussion sound.
1991-present
Freilich, Felix
violin
1955-2000
Frengut, Leon
(Maryland 1904-1970)
Principal viola (Artur Rodzinski who taught at Curtis when Leon Frengut
studied there hired in 1937 Frengut as Principal viola and Tom Brennand
as Assistant Principal viola. Leon Frengut also played in the
Symphony of the Air's Far East tour in May and June, 1955. He was also
viola with the Stuyvesant Quartet,
whose membership changed over time, but with Frengut was: Sylvan Shulman first,
Rona Robbins second, Leon Frengut viola, Harvey Shapiro cello. This group
recorded a number of chamber works for the Nonesuch label in the 1960s.
also an active recording sessions musician in New York City
in the late 1940s and early 1950s)
Co-Principal cello 1959-1960, Principal cello 1960-1961
1959-1961
Fridkowsky, Simeon
violin
1918-1922
Friedel, Albert
violin
1919-1934
Friedman, Sam
violin
1918-1931
Fu, Ying
(China 1983- )
violin (also while studying at Rice University, Houston Symphony substitute
violin 2007-2011, also Shanghai Philharmonic substitute violin 2005-2006)
Studied at the Shanghai Conservatory and the Shepherd School of Music -
Rice University. Active in music festivals, including the Taos Chamber
Music Festival - New Mexico 2008 and the Marlboro Music Festival -
Vermont 2010.
Principal cello 1943-1947, cello 1937-1943, Assistant
Principal cello 1949-1979 (also Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
1935-1937)
Studied first with his gifted father Phillip Fuchs, then
admitted to the Juilliard Graduate School under a scholarship
in 1932-1935 97. When George Szell selected
Ernst Silberstein to become Principal cello 1947-1948,
Harry Fuchs departed for two seasons. Harry Fuchs returned
to the Cleveland Orchestra as Assistant Principal cello in
1949-1950, and retired in 1979 after 45 years service.
Concertmaster (also Capital Theater - New York City)
Studied first with his gifted father Phillip Fuchs, then admitted to
the Institute of Musical Arts (Juilliard) 1907-1919 97.
Joseph Fuchs then went to Berlin in 1921-1922 to study. Joseph Fuchs
premiered the Martinu Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola (1947)
and the Walter Piston Second Violin Concerto, which Fuchs commissioned.
1926-1941
Fulkerson, Gregory
violin
1971-1974
Funakoshi, Kozue
(Japan about 1972- )
violin (as a student, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago Concertmaster,
also Chicago Symphony violin 2000-present. active in chamber
music, Funakoshi played in the Cleveland Orchestra chamber music
series and the Chicago Chamber Musicians)
Studied at the Tokyo College of Music BMus. Active in music festivals,
including the Kurashiki Music Festival - Japan. Participated in two
orchestral tours: Thüringer Philharmonic 1993 tour of Germany and the
1993 US tour of her music school, the Tokyo College of Music Symphony
Orchestra.
1998-2000
Funkhouser, Frederick
(Ohio 1905-1984)
viola
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Funkhouser played under
the first six Conductors of the Cleveland Orchestra: Nikolai Sokoloff,
Artur Rodzinski, Erich Leinsdorf, George Szell, Pierre Boulez,
Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnányi.
1929-1984
55 seasons of service
Furiyoshi, Keiko
married to Ronald Whitaker, Librarian of the Cleveland Orchestra.
(Japan 1946- )
violin (gave her New York City premier at the Carnegie Recital
Hall on January 28, 1971 123)
Studied at Indiana University with Josef Gingold 1968-1971.
She was also teaching at the University of Wisconsin - Racine.
Principal piccolo 1926-1928, piccolo 1921-1925, 1928-1929, flute 1921-1929
(also Goldman Band, Leonard B. Smith Concert
Band in 1954, Radio City Music Hall Orchestra in 1933,
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra flute and piccolo,
New York Philharmonic piccolo and Personnel Manager late 1940s-early 1950s,
NBC Symphony under Toscanini 1937-1940s, Chicago Symphony 1954-1957)
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
1921-1929
Gassman, Bert B. (1911-2004)
Principal oboe 1947-1949, oboe, English horn 1930-1944 (also Los Angeles Philharmonic)
Principal cello 1973-2003 (also Boston Symphony 1965-1973,
Music Guild String Quartet consisting of BSO musicians
Max Winder first,
Gerald Gelbloom second,
Bernard Kadinoff
viola, and Stephen Geber cello 83,
Cleveland Orchestra String Quartet)
Studied with his cellist parents and at the
Eastman School of Music BMus 1965. Following his retirement
from the Cleveland Orchestra has become Head of the Cello
Department of the Cleveland Institute of Music.
1973-2003
Geithe, Arthur
horn
Principal 1920-1921
Gelbloom, Gerald (Canada 1926-1982)
violin (also Cleveland Orchestra 1961-1982, Baltimore Symphony and Hartford
Symphony Concertmaster 1955-1960, Music Guild String Quartet
with Gerald Gelbloom first,
Max Winder
second,
Bernard Kadinoff
viola,
Stephen Geber
cello)
Studied at the Juilliard School and University of Hartford.
1947-1949
(died suddenly during Boston Pops season June 2, 1982 age 56)
cello (later became a Hollywood sessions musician
in the 1960s and 1970s, and a jazz musician joining
the Chico Hamilton Combo, and recording the 1972 album
Geronimo Black. In Hollywood, he also recorded
with Neil Diamond, Rosemary Clooney and Doris Day)
Second Concertmaster 1932-1933, violin 1933-1943, Assistant
Concertmaster 1943-1944 (also became a New York sessions
musicians, recording many jazz and pop records in the 1950s
and 1960s including for Verve, and the album Stan Getz -
Live at Tanglewood)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1934.
1932-1944
Gilbert, Daniel M.
(New York 1964- )
Second clarinet (also a New York City freelancer musician prior to
the Cleveland Orchestra, New Haven Symphony - Connecticut Principal
clarinet 1992-1995, also Quintet of the Americas 1994-1995, which
toured the US was in residence at Northwestern University - Chicago)
Studied at Yale University BA and the Juilliard School MMus and
Professional Studies Certificate.
Concertmaster (also NBC Symphony violin under Toscanini 1937-1944,
Detroit Symphony Concertmaster 1944-1945 under Karl Krueger.
Studied in New York with Vladimir Graffman, father of the
pianist Gary Graffman, then in Belgium 1926-1928 with
Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931). Gingold taught at Indiana
University from about 1961 until his death in 1995.
mong his students were William Preucil, Ulf Hoelscher,
Miriam Fried, Jaime Laredo, Joseph Silverstein, and
Joshua Bell.
1947-1960
Glasser, David Alan
(1953- )
horn 1977-1981, Assistant Principal horn 1981-1984, horn 1984-1996
1977-1996
Glassman, Joseph
bass
1919-1920
Glazer, David A.
(Wisconsin 1913-2001) of Lithuanian-Jewish heritage
Third clarinet (also the New York Wind Quintet, Samuel Baron flute,
Ronald Roseman oboe, David Glazer clarinet, Arthur Weisberg bassoon,
and Ralph Froelich horn 1951-1985, but with changing membership 81)
Studied at the University of Wisconsin BMus. 81
1946-1951
Glickstein, David
(New Jersey 1900-1983)
Principal trumpet (also Metropolitan Theater, Newark in 1917, Saint Louis Symphony
Principal trumpet 1919-1920 season, New York Philharmonic trumpet 1920-1921,
trumpet with the Goldman Band 1921, New York Symphony trumpet in 1922-1923,
Cincinnati Symphony Principal trumpet 1923-1924 under Fritz Reiner, then early
in his career. returned to the New York Philharmonic Third trumpet
1926-1927 under Willem Mengelberg. In the 1930s, Broadway show orchestras,
on NBC radio with the Lucky Strike Orchestra. With the formation of
Toscanini's NBC Symphony, joined the trumpet section for its first
four seasons, 1937-1941 primarily as Third trumpet)
1921-1922
Gnam, Adrian
(Ohio 1940- )
oboe 1964-1966, acting Co-Principal oboe 1964-1965 (also American Symphony - New
York Principal oboe under Stokowski in the 1960s, conductor of the
Macon Symphony Orchestra - Georgia 1983-present, former Gudst Conductor of
the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, and Music Director of the Shreveport
Summer Music Festival - Louisiana of which
Sidney Harth was also long-term Music Director)
Studied oboe at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and
conducting at the Pierre Monteux school in Hancock, Maine. Also Director of the music
program at the National Endowment for the Arts for 8 years.
1964-1966
Goederteir, Fred
horn
1924-1926
Goetsch, Erwin F.
cello
1919-1926
Goldberg, Bernard
(Illinois 1923- )
flute (also Pittsburgh Symphony Principal flute 1947-1993,
International Society of Contemporary Music 99)
Studied at the Juilliard School, one of the last students
of Georges Barrère (1876-1944), graduating in about 1943.
Principal flute 1945-1946, piccolo
1943-1945 (to Pittsburgh Symphony)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1933. Interestingly, in both Philadelphia
and Cleveland, Isadore Goldblum was a contract bridge grand champion.
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1931. Died May 13, 2005 two
days prior to his 100th birthday.
1925-1929, 1931-1947
Goldin, Hyman
bass
1920-1921, 1926-1943
Goldlust, Marvin E.
(1924-1980)
bass
1942-1943, 1946-50
Goldman, Michael
violin
1962-1965, 1969-1973
Goldschmidt, Bernhard
(Germany 1925 - 1994)
violin 1958-1964, Principal Second violin 1964-1995 (also Houston Symphony and
Suburban Symphony Orchestra - Ohio Concertmaster 1963-1979)
Left Germany in 1939 via China. Studied at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music
and the Peabody Conservatory - Baltimore. He taught at the Cleveland Institute
of Music. After the creation of the Kent State - Blossom Music Festival teaching
program, taught 41968-1971, and became head of the string department in 1971.
1958-1995
Goldsmith, Rosemary
viola
1967-1981
Gomez, Kim Nolan
(Kentucky 1967- )
photograph by Roger Mastroianni, n.d.
violin (also a frequent soloist with her home-town orchestra
the Louisville Symphony)
Studied at the Peabody Conservatory and the Cleveland Institute of Music
artist diploma, BMus.
Aaron Gorodner (Photographer unidentified, n.d. Courtesy of the
Cleveland Orchestra Archives)
Principal clarinet (also John Phillip Sousa Band in the late
1920s 111, NBC radio staff orchestra - New York City,
Goldman Band, Aeolian Quartet, also toured with the the
Roth Quartet,
under Feri Roth (1899-1969) first, Jeno Antal second, Ferenc Molnar
viola, and Janos Scholz cello.)
Aaron Gorodner made the first recording of
Roy Harris's Concerto for Clarinet, Piano and String Quartet
with the Aeolian Quartet on Columbia in 1933s 78.
One of the teachers of his later successor,
Franklin Cohen.
1930-1931
Goslee, George
(Ohio 1916-2006)
Principal bassoon (also Rochester Philharmonic 1938-1939, Indianapolis Symphony 1941-1943,
Cleveland Orchestra 1943-1945, Philadelphia Orchestra for the 1945-1946, returned to
Cleveland 1946-1988)
Studied at the Eastman School of Music graduating 1939.
Assistant Concertmaster 1965-1966 (also Goteborg Symphony, later Hollywood
studio violin)
1965-1966
Grant, Edward Eugene
(Michigan 1897- )
Third horn (also John Philip Sousa Band French horn)
1926-1929
Grant, Frank H.
(Canada 1906- )
cello (hired by Nikolai Sokoloff directly from the Cleveland
Institute of Music in the 1925-1926 season.
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, graduating in
1925. Later taught music at Western Reserve University -
Cleveland.
1925-1942
Grau, Gideon
violin
1954-1955
Gray, William
viola
1920-1925
Grebanier, Michael Peter
(New York 1937- ) married to San Francisco Symphony
violinist
Sharon W. Grebanier
cello (also Pittsburgh Symphony Principal cello 1963-1977, San Francisco
Symphony Principal cello 1977-present, also FOG trio of San Francisco with
Jorja Fleezanis violin and Garrick Ohlsson piano)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1958.
Grebanier is also active in summer festivals,
including the Marlboro Festival - Vermont and the Casals Festival -
Puerto Rico.
1959-1963
Green, Louis
viola 1919-1920, Bass clarinet 1919-1920, Principal clarinet
1920-1925 (also Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra Second clarinet
in the 1940s)
1919-1925
Green, William
violin
1918-1919
Greenbaum, David
(Scotland 1908-1974)
cello (also Chicago Symphony cello 1948-1974. also a New York
recording sessions musician between the Cleveland Orchestra and
the Chicago Symphony. also Chicago Arts Quartet:
Philip Scharf first,
Adrian Da Prato second,
Isadore Zverow viola,
David Greenbaum cello)
Taught at the Lehnhoff School of Music Chicago in the 1950s 142.
Principal oboe (went to San Francisco Ballet Orchestra)
2003-2005
Grossman, Andrew
horn
1967-1969
Gruber, Gabriel
viola
1949-1951
Grunwald, Ernst G. (1885-1960)
violin
1919-1920
Gu, Wei-Fang
(China 1961- )
photo: Roger Mastroianni, n.d.
violin (also Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra violin prior to the Cleveland Orchestra)
Studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Shanghai Music Conservatory.
Also studied at the Thorton School of Music at the University of Southern California.
He teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
1990-present
Guia, L. Perez
double bass
1922-1926
Gusikoff, Charles
(New York 1897-1966)
Principal trombone 1919-1920 (also long-time Philadelphia Orchestra
Principal trombone 1931-1954, 1955-1957, Co-Principal 1954-1955
as well as euphonium - see picture at left with Gusikoff and a
double bell euphonium, rarely used in today's orchestra,
also Sousa Band in 1918)
From the musical Gusikoff family;
Saul Caston
was also a Gusikoff
(born Solomon Gusikoff Cohen).
1978-1980 bass, 1980-1982 Assistant Principal bass, 1982-present
First Assistant Principal bass (also Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado
de Mexico, Milwaukee Symphony)
Died following the 1939-1940 season in a strange accident where he hit his head
on a car bumper. 121
Han-Gorski, Adam - born Arno Haan, with his father later changing the
family name to evade (unsuccessfully) the Nazis and the Soviets
(then Russia, now Ukraine 1940- )
violin (also Metropolitan Opera National (touring) Company Concertmaster,
Syracuse Symphony - New York - Concertmaster, Minnesota Orchestra
Concertmaster, Vienna Radio Symphony (Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien) for
25 seasons, 1976-2001)
Studied at the Lvov High School, then Israeli Academy of
Music - Tel Aviv. Then participated in the Jascha Heifetz
Master Class at the University of Southern California.
1967-1970
Hanolik, Christopher
Principal bass
1995-1990
Hardcastle, Geoffrey
trumpet
1997-1998
Harnach, Fred
bass
1943-1946
Harnett, James
bass
1950-1955
Harrell, David Alan
(South Carolina 1970- )
photograph by Roger Mastroianni, n.d.
cello (also Virginia Symphony, Canton Symphony - Ohio)
Studied at the University of Alabama BMus, Cleveland Institute of Music
MMus about 1994.
1995-present
Harrell, Lynn
(New York 1944- )
Lynn Harrell in 1999
cello 1963-1965, alternating Principal cello 1965-1966,
Principal cello 1966-1971. George Szell appointed Harrell to the
Cleveland Orchestra in 1963-1964, and in 1965-1966, named Harrell
as alternating Principal cello with Gerald Appleman. In 1966-1967,
Szell appointed Lynn Harrell as the Principal cello of the
Cleveland Orchestra. In 1971, Lynn Harrell left the Cleveland
Orchestra to pursue what has been a dazzling solo cello career.
Studied first with his musical parents, his father Mack Harrell a
singer, and his mother Marjorie Fulton Harrell a violinist. Harrell was
admitted first to the Juilliard School and then to the
Curtis Institute, graduating in the Class of 1963.
violin (also Amici Quartet since 1987:
Takako Masame first,
Miho Hashizume second,
Lynn Ramsey viola,
Ralph Curry cello. She plays baroque violin with Apollo’s Fire
in Cleveland. also Toronto Symphony violin about 1992-1995)
Osaka born, Hashizume studied at Toho School of Music in Tokyo, and at the
University of Wyoming and the Cleveland Institute of Music. also active
in summer music festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival - Colorado, the Boston Early
Music Festival - Massachusetts, and the Indianapolis Early Music Series - Indiana). In her
teaching, Hashizume also coaches the Case/CIM Baroque Orchestra, where she has been Director.
1995-present
Hasty, D. Stanley
(Nebraska 1920-2011)
clarinet (dismissed by Szell, this great musician was Principal clarinet with the
Baltimore Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, and the Rochester Philharmonic).
Hasty studied at the Eastman School of Music performer’s certificate and BMus in 1941. Before
Eastman, Hasty would take a one day train trip each way (free his father working for the
railroad) to Denver to study with Val P. Henrich (1890-1980) Principal clarinet of the
Denver Symphony. Hasty lived in rural McCook, Nebraska, more than 250 km away from any
major city. In 1955, Stanley Hasty returned to his alma mater,
the Eastman School, where he taught for the next three decades 1955-1985. His many students
include Larry Combs, Sean Osborn and Peter Hadcock .
1945-1946
Hazlett, George
cello
1918-1919
Hebert, William
(Ohio 1923- )
Principal piccolo (also New York City Center Symphony, Opera, and Ballet prior to the Cleveland
Orchestra)
Studied at the Longy School - Massachusetts and at the Juilliard School. Taught at
Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory - Ohio. Sixteen of Hebert's students commisstioned a work
by Margaret Griebling-Haigh: Hebert Variations in honor of their teacher.
1947-1988
Hedberg, Earl L. (1915-2003)
viola (to Boston Symphony)
1955-1956
Heidenreich, Joseph (1886-c1960)
trombone
1918-1919
Heim, Gustav Friedrick
(Germany 1879-1933)
Gustav Heim in 1920
Principal trumpet (also Principal trumpet for an amazing number of orchestras:
Philadelphia Orchestra 1905-1906, Boston Symphony Third trumpet 1906-1914 and Principal trumpet 1914-1920,
Detroit Symphony 1920-1921, New York Philharmonic 1921-1923, Cleveland Orchestra 1923-1924,
New York Symphony 1925-1928, American Symphonic Ensemble of New York 1929-1930)
Gustav Heim also taught in New York City, and among
his famous students were William Vacchiano.
During most of his career, Gustav Heim played a Bb trumpet.
Gustav Heim died relatively young on October 30, 1933 in
New York City after a sudden illness, aged only 54.
Walter Henker died while touring Canada in 1962, according to his family
from a brain tumor. Henker became a US citizen in 1957.
Thanks to grandson Steven Walter Morris for this photo.
1953-1962
Hensel, Harry
cello 1924-1940, trombone 1927-1933
1924-1940
Herforth, Harry Best (1916- )
trumpet, cornet (also Boston Symphony)
1951-1958
Hering, Sigmund
(then Austro-Hungary, now Ukraine 1898-1986)
one of many Hering studies and etudes - Hering was one of the most
published teachers for the trumpet, other brass and woodwinds.
Principal Trumpet (also Philadelphia Orchestra Assistant Principal
(Second trumpet) 1925-1952 then Fourth trumpet 1952-1964)
Studied at the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna 1915-1921.
Hering student Wilmer Wise (Brooklyn Symphony) wrote that Hering studied
both double bass and trumpet at the Curtis Institute. Hering is listed
as a Curtis graduate Class of 1930, when he would have been 31 years
old and already in the Philadelphia Orchestra for 5 seasons.
Trumpet scholar Dr. Thomas R. Erdmann wrote that Hering "...was
perhaps the most influential trumpet teacher in America during the mid
20th century...He is the most published trumpet pedagogue in the
world..." 56. Sigmund Hering for more than
fifty years taught at the Settlement Music School - Philadelphia.
1922-1924
Heylman, Martin (Ohio 1919-2004)
Principal flute 1946-1947, flute 1941-1942, 1947-1981, piccolo 1941-1943
1941-1943, 1946-1981
Hlavin, Anthony
clarinet
1924-1925
Hlavin, William
clarinet
1922-1923
Hobart, Max E. (Nebraska 1936- )
violin 1961-1965
(also New Orleans Symphony, National Symphony of Washington
DC, Boston Symphony violin 1965-1970,
Assistant Concertmaster 1970-1992, also conductor of the
North Shore Philharmonic - Massachusetts)
trumpet (also Pittsburgh Symphony Principal trumpet 1960-1992,
succeeded by George Vosburgh, then
Second trumpet 1996-1996 117, active in Summer festivals,
including as a student at Tanglewood in Summers of 1948, 1949, 1950,
and particularly at the Chautauqua Festival 1960-1979 where his family
had a cottage and regularly spent their summers)
Principal horn (also Chicago Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Pittsburgh
Symphony, Hollywood studios)
Principal horn (also Chicago Symphony Principal horn 1922-1923 and
horn 1917-1918, Los Angeles Philharmonic in its founding season 1919-1920,
Rochester Philharmonic Principal horn
1924-1930, Pittsburgh Symphony under Reiner 1940-1941, then moving
back to California, for eighteen years in the 1950s and 1960s played
in the Walt Disney studio recording orchestra and other Hollywood studio
orchestras)
Wendell Hoss was one of the founders of the Los Angeles Horn Club and
the International Horn Society.
1921-1922, 1930-1932
Howard, Arthur
cello
1957-1958
Hruby, Alois Henry "Louie" brother of Charles, Frank, John, William
and sister Mayme Kolda Hruby
(Ohio 1886-1968)
cello 1918-1926, Third trumpet 1919-1926, 1934-1955,
Principal trumpet 1927-1934
1918-1955
Hruby, Charles brother of Alois, Frank, John, William and
sister Mayme Kolda Hruby
(Ohio 1893-1976)
trumpet 1920-1921, 1925-1926
1920-1921, 1925-1926
Hruby, Frank Jr. brother of Alois, Charles, John,
William and sister Mayme Kolda Hruby
(Bohemia, now Czech 1883-1974)
clarinet, bass clarinet
Frank Hruby Sr., or Frantisek Hruby (1857-1913), father of the Hruby children
was also a clarinetist, music educator and beginning in 1889, director of the
Great Western Band. In Cleveland, he played for many years in the orchestra
of the Euclid Avenue Opera House.
1918-1926
Hruby, John J. brother of Alois, Charles, Frank, William
and sister Mayme Kolda Hruby
Assistant Principal trombone (also Hartford Symphony Principal trombone,
Haddonfield Symphony - New Jersey Principal trombone 2004-2008. Active
in Summer festivals, including Verbier Festival - Switzerland, Spoleto
Festival - Italy)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 2007, Juilliard School. Active in summer festivals,
including the Verbier Festival - Switzerland and the Spoleto Festival - Italy.
viola (also Pittsburgh Symphony, active in festivals, including
the Aspen Summer Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Mainly Mozart Festival
in San Diego, Heidelberg Schloss Spiele Festival, and Interlochen
Summer Arts Festival)
Studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Eastman School of
Music BMus. Also at the Cleveland Institute of Music, artist diploma.
viola (also the Bruges Quartet:
Yoko Moore first,
Takako Masame second,
Lucien Joel viola,
Thomas Mansbacher cello,
also Cleveland Octet: Erich Eichhorn violin,
Robert Zimmer violin,
Lucien Joel viola, Gary Stucka cello,
Scott Haigh bass, Theodore Johnson clarinet
George Goslee bassoon, David Glasser horn)
1969-2000
Johnson, Theodore
(Illinois about 1925- )
clarinet (also as a student, the Chicago Civic Orchestra, a training orchestra.
Also Kansas City Philharmonic and Kansas City Civic Opera 1953-1959)
Studied at De Paul University - Chicago.
Also played in summers in the Santa Fe Opera orchestra in the late 1950s.
keyboard 1968-1972, Principal keyboard 1972-present
(also the Cleveland Orchestra
Piano Trio:
Joela Jones piano,
Peter Otto violin,
Richard Weiss cello)
Studied at Florida State University and the Eastman School
of Music. Cleveland Institute of Music BMus and MMus. Also
studied organ at the Conservatory of Music - Baldwin-Wallace
College - Ohio.
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music Class of 1936
1934-1942, 1946-1984
Kaston, Henryk Kaczka
(Poland 1910-2010)
violin (also as a teen, played in a theater orchestra for silent
films. Long-term Metropolitan Opera Orchestra violin 1943-1978)
Well-known also as a maker and repairer of violin bows;
in the 1960s, he worked at the Wurlitzer violin shop in New York.
Kaston also made artistic jewelry with musical themes.
Principal flute (also Atlantic Symphony - Halifax, Nova Scotia Principal
flute, Pittsburgh Symphony Co-Principal flute, with Bernard
Goldberg 1981-1982, Philadelphia Orchestra Principal flute 1990-present)
Studied at the Juilliard School BMus 1980.
1982-1990
King, Erwin
violin
1926-1943
King, Richard
(New York 1968- )
Associate Principal horn at age 20, before graduating from the Curtis
Institute 1988-1995, Co-Principal horn 1995-1997,
Principal 1997-present (also Center City Brass Quintet)
Studied at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division in the Spring, 1985
and beginning September 1985 at the Curtis Institute, graduating in
Class of 1989. He teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Richard King has recorded a CD of beautiful transcriptions
of Schubert Lieder for Albany worth multiple hearings (see right)
Principal Bass trombone (also Detroit Symphony 1980-1985)
Studied in the 1970s at the Cincinnati College - Conservatory
of Music. Active in coaching students at the
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. Klaber is also Principal
euphonium of the Blossom Festival Band, back to his first
instrument as a student. Also active in competitive ice
skating.
1985-present
Klass, Solomon "Sol"
(New York 1905-1985)
Sol Klass from a 1938 NBC Symphony publicity drawing 174
trumpet (also Cincinnati Symphony trumpet, also New York Philharmonic under
Toscanini in the 1930s, also Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony trumpet)
Studied with his Russian-born father Morris Klass.
1926-1928
Klima, Arthur J. Jr.
(Ohio 1948- )
viola (also Baltimore Symphony)
Studied at the University of Illinois and Yale University.
1977-present
Klinger, David
violin, percussion
1926-1944
Knight, Anthony
bass 1974-1982, Assistant Principal bass 1982-1991
1974-1991
Knitzer, Joseph
(New York 1913-1967)
Concertmaster
Knitzer studied with Leopold Auer (1845-1930) for nearly
seven years. He also studied with Louis Persinger (1887-1966).
Knitzer was a long time teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Music,
Northwestern University in Chicago, the Eastman School of Music
in Rochester, New York, and the University of Michigan.
1945-1946
Knox, James
violin
1945-1968
Kobler, Raymond Spencer husband of San Francisco Symphony
violin
Catherine Van Hoesen
(California 1945- )
Assistant Concertmaster 1973-1976, Associate Concertmaster
1976-1980 (also United States Marine White House String Quartet
in late 1960s, National Symphony - Washington DC 1970-1972,
Orchestra of the National Ballet - Maryland Concertmaster about
1971, Baltimore Symphony Assistant Concertmaster 1972-1973,
Cleveland Orchestra Associate Concertmaster 1973-1980,
San Francisco Symphony Concertmaster 1980-1998,
Pacific Symphony - Orange County California Concertmaster
1999-present)
Studied at Indiana University BMus, and at Catholic University -
Washaington MMus.
violin (also Omni Quartet: Amy Lee first, Alicia Koelz second, Joanna Patterson
viola, Tanya Ell cello. Active in summer festivals, including Sarasota Music
Festival - Florida, Music Academy of the West Festival - Santa Barbara,
Chautauqua Institute Festival - New York)
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music BMus and Northwestern University
- Chicago MMus.
viola 1991-1993, Assistant Principal viola 1993-present (also
Pittsburgh Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra - a summer
orchestra in Colorado)
Studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy - Michigan and at the
Cleveland Institute of Music.
1991-present
Kornfeld, Camille
violin
1918-1919
Kosower, Mark
(Wisconsin 1976- )
Principal cello (also Bamberg Symphony Orchestra Principal cello)
Early studies with his cellist father Paul R. Kosower. Mark Kosower
studied at Indiana University BMus and artist diploma in about 1998.
Also MMus at the Juilliard School in about 2001. For NAXOS in 2009-2010,
Mark Kosower recorded the Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Cello Concerto no 1 with Lothar Zagrosek - Bamberg Symphony.
Kosower was the first cellist to record the complete catalogue of
works for solo cello by the great Argentine composer Ginastera. He also recorded
a rewarding recital of cello sonatas by Hungarian composers (see right)
2009-present
Krachmalnick, Jacob Morris
(then Russia, now Ukraine 1922-2001)
Assistant Concertmaster 1946-1951, 1960-1961 (also Saint Louis Symphony
for several months in 1942 before being drafted, Philadelphia
Orchestra Concertmaster 1951-1958 and left suddenly after disagreements
with Ormandy, Concertgebouw Orchestra Concertmaster 1958-1960 before
returning to Cleveland, New York Philharmonic on Japan tour Spring 1962,
briefly Concertmaster Dallas Symphony about 1963, San Francisco
Symphony and San Francisco Opera Concertmaster 1964-1970)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1941. Jacob Krachmalnick was
said by his colleagues to be a difficult and sarcastic leader.
1946-1951, 1960-1961
Krasner, Louis
(then Russia, now Ukraine 1903-1995)
Alban Berg, left, with Louis Krasner
violin (also Minneapolis Symphony Concertmaster 1944-1949,
Kramer Chamber Music Ensemble in 1950s)
After moving to Boston as a child, was admitted to the New England
Conservatory, graduating in 1922. Relocating to Paris and then to Berlin,
Krasner gave the premieres of both the Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg
Violin Concerti. Taught music at Syracuse Univesity, New York 1949-1972,
and at the New England Conservatory in the 1970s.
Principal bassoon (also Principal bassoon San Francisco Symphony
1914-1917, 1919-1934, 1936-1956, San Francisco Opera Orchestra 1950-1960.
in San Francisco, also played with Henry Cowell's New Music Society,
giving the premiers of several works by Henry Cowell and
Charles Ruggles in 1926-1927 228)
Trained as a bassoonist in Vienna in his teenage years.
1935-1936
Kuhlmann, Carl H. (also sometimes listed as Carl H. Kuhlman)
(Germany 1877- )
Eb clarinet and Bass clarinet (also a New York theater orchestra musician
in the 1920s)
also active in summer music festivals, including the Berkshire Festival of Chamber Music
beginning in 1919.
1934-1950
Kurkdjie, (Lawrence) Nazar
(Syria 1895-1978)
violin (Geneva Symphony - Switzerland,
Boston Symphony 1919-1920, Cleveland Orchestra 1920-1922,
1932-1939 led the Kurkdjie Ensemble and the L. Nazar Kurkdjie Orchestra for
WTAM and WHK radio Cleveland and later in Hollywood, the KLAC, the NBC radio
orchestra under the name of "Mr. Lawrence". As a Hollywood
musician, he also directed orchestras for Harry James and Bing Crosby,
Phil Harris orchestra)
Taught at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory - Ohio in 1920s into about
1939. Jack Benny claimed that Lawrence Kurkdjie was his most important
violin teacher 118. Billed as Nazar Kurkdjie in performance,
his friends called him Lawrence.
1920-1922
Kushious, Paul D.
(Rhode Island 1961- )
photograph by Roger Mastroianni, n.d.
cello (also Columbus Symphony 1984-1995. Also Rhode Island Philharmonic
Youth Orchestras for 8 years under the direction of his father,
David Kushious, also Miami String Quartet)
Studied at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music BMus 1983.
Assistant Principal bass 1924-1937, 1939-1944,
Principal bass 1937-1939, bass
1924-1944
Lamp, Karl
cello
1944-1946
Landholt, Robert
trumpet, cornet (to San Antonio Symphony 1951-1954. also Bach Festival in
Winter Park, Florida in 1940s)
Studied privately with William Vacchiano.
1948-1951
Landshoff, Werner
cello
1944-1947
Lane, Louis
Principal keyboard 1954-1961, keyboard 1947-1954,
percussion 1948-1955
1954-1961
Lane, Timothy
flute
1980-1981
Lapenna, Angelo
bass
1950-1951
La Rosa, Massimo
(Italy 1974- )
Principal trombone (also La Fenice Opera Orchestra - Venice Principal trombone 1996-2007,
La Scala Orchestra - Milan Principal trombone, Santa Cecilia Symphony - Rome Principal
trombone, Teatro Comunale di Firenze - Florence Principal trombone)
Studied in Sicily with Filippo Bonanno, Principal trombone of the Sicilian Symphony.
He teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music. His great sounding and great performing
CD is recommended (see right)
double bass (also a jazz musician performing with Toka Beatz)
1959-1967
Latzke, Edwin C.
(California 1895-1979)
violin (also a band musician in Miami, Florida in the 1930s and 1940s. where he died in 1979)
1918-1920
Laut, Edward
cello
1973-1977
Lavin, Avram
cello
1948-1949
Layefsky, Godfrey
(New York 1915-1997)
viola (also New York Philharmonic viola 1952–1957, Pittsburgh Symphony
Principal viola about 1957 into 1960s, Kohon Quartet: Harold Kohon first,
Raymond Kunicki second, Godfrey Layefsky viola, Lorin Bernsohn cello)
1939-1941
Lazarev, Leon
(then Russia, now Ukraine 1938-2010)
photograph by Roger Mastroianni, n.d.
violin (also Solon Philharmonic - Ohio Concertmaster, Austrian Radio
Symphony, Luxembourg Symphony, American Symphony - New York,
Seattle Symphony)
Studied first with his parents, his father being a violinist with
the Leningrad Philharmonic, and his mother teaching piano at the
Leningrad Conservatory. Lazarev then studeied at the Gnesin Academy of Music
- Moscow.
1985-2010
died during the 2009-2010 season on April 10, 2010.
Lee, Jung-min Amy
Associate Concertmaster (also one of the founders in 2002 of the the
Koryo String Quartet:
Amy Lee first, Yura Lee second,
Jonathan Vinocour viola and Earl Lee cello)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 2005 and then at the Juilliard School
MMus.
2008-present
Leonard, Ronald
cello
1955-1957
Leoncavallo, John (Italy 1896-1978)
English horn (also New York Symphony 1919-1920, National
Theater - Havana 1916)
Principal clarinet (also Garde républicaine band - Paris
109 in about 1900. New York Philharmonic Principal clarinet
under Josef Stransky 1911-1914, New York National Symphony 1918-1921,
also one of the founders of the Philharmonic Ensemble, a
wind quintet with violin consisting of Henri Leroy clarinet,
Xavier Reiter
horn, August Mesnard bassoon,
Anton Fayer flute, and joined by
Leopold Kramer
, then Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic
110.)
Principal oboe 1950-1959, 1960-1965 (also Buffalo Symphony, National
Symphony - Washington DC, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Principal oboe
1959-1960, San Francisco Symphony Principal oboe 1965-1986; Co-Principal
oboe of the SFSO with Jean-Louis LeRoux 1965-1970. Contemporaries
said that George Szell dismissed Marc Lifschey from the Cleveland
Orchestra at the end of 1964-1965 in order to replace him with John Mack)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1948. From 1993-1998,
Marc Lifschey taught at Indiana University, until retiring to Oregon.
1950-1959, 1960-1965
Lifschey, Samuel
(New York 1889-1961)
Principal viola (also New York Symphony viola during WW1, Maverick Festival at
Woodstock, New York during the summers in early 1920s, Cleveland Orchestra
Principal viola 1921-1923, Philadelphia Orchestra Principal viola for thirty
seasons, 1925-1955. Also Detroit String Quartet in 1920s, Guarnerius Quartet
with Alexander Hilsberg first, David Madison second and Samuel Lifschey
viola, van den Berg cello in 1930s)
Studied violin under Arnold Volpe (1869-1940) in New York City
in the 1910s.
1921-1923
Lilleback, Hans Valdemar Durck (Walter)
(Denmark 1882-1971)
bass trombone (also New York Symphony trombone including
1920 European tour, New York Philharmonic bass trombone 1921-1924,
Sousa Band, also Boston Symphony 1934-1941, where John Coffey
succeeded him)
In 1930, Lilleback and Felix Leifels organized the Civic Symphony
Orchestra of New York to give low priced concerts 58
1941-1948
Lincer, William (1907-1997)
Principal viola (also New York Philharmonic)
1942-1943
Linder, Waldemar
horn
1929-1933
Lindstrom, Benjamin James
(Illinois 1882-1964)
violin (also played in the Cleveland WPA Orchestra also called the
Federal Music Project Orchestra, giving employment to musicians
during the great depression)
violin 1968-1977, Assistant Principal Second Violin 1977-present
(also Baltimore Symphony Assistant Concertmaster, Detroit Symphony
Assistant Principal Second Violinist, Suburban Symphony - Ohio
Concertmaster 1985-present.)
Studied at Brandeis University - Massachusetts. Active in teaching
musicians in the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra.
1968-present
Lockwood, Ralph G.
(Ohio 1942- )
horn (also Music in Maine Chamber Orchestra, Prize winner in 1976
International Horn Competition of America)
Studied at the New England Conservatory MMus. College-Conservatory of Music -
University of Cincinnati PhD studies. Sin 1972, taught several generations
of horns at Arizona State University School of Music (now retired).
Married to Phoenix Symphony flute Marjorie Yates-Lockwood. Recently
returned to Ohio.
1975-1976
Loebel, Kurt
(Austria 1921-2009)
violin (also Dallas Symphony 1946-1947, a founder of the Symphonia Quartet)
Studied with Ernst Moravec, Principal violist of the Vienna Philharmonic,
and at the Juilliard School 1941-1943, Cleveland Institute of Music
BMus, MMus 108. Also served as Chairman of the Cleveland
Orchestra musician's committee 107. His son David Loebel
pursued a conducting career, including Associate Principal conductor
of the Saint Louis Symphony and Music Director of the Memphis Symphony.
1947-1997
fifty seasons of service
Logan, Walter G.
(Canada 1876-1940)
violin 1918-1923, viola 1923-1929, keyboard 1919-1920 (also
Cleveland Concert Band, and music director for Cleveland radio
station WTAM 1922-1940)
Studied violin with Sol Marcosson and at the Oberlin College
Conservatory of Music graduating in 1899. Then studied in
Chicago at Northwestern University where he also later taught.
Returned to Cleveland in 1912 where he became dean of the
Cleveland Music School Settlement, providing free music instruction
primarily for children of working parents. One of the early
musicians to aid the organization of the Cleveland Orchestra.
Second oboe and English horn (also Salt Lake Philharmonic Principal
oboe 1915-1916 119, Pat Conway Band 1920s,
Herbert L. Clarke Long Beach Band - California 1927, director
of the Latter Day Saints Band - Utah 1927-1928)
William Lym studied at the New England Conservatory performers
certificate about 1920. Lym later taught at the
McCune School of Music and Art, Salt Lake
City, Utah in the 1920s (now closed). In 1929, Lym moved
to Los Angeles as a music teacher. In the 1950s, William Lym made
highly praised oboes and English horns in West Hollywood,
California.
1921-1924
Lynch, Mary
(Washington, DC about 1989- )
photo: Steve Riskind, n.d.
Second oboe (also in Boston while studying at the New England Conservatory:
the Atlantic Symphony Principal, the Boston Philharmonic Principal oboe and the
Discovery Ensemble - Boston 2008-2010. also the New York String Orchestra
Principal oboe in 2009 and 2010)
Studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy - Michigan 2006, and later at the
New England conservatory BMus and studying for MMus at the Juilliard School.
Also active in summer music festivals, including the Marlboro Music Festival
- Vermont, the Music Academy of the West - California, the Tanglewood Music
Center, and the Aspen Music Festival and School - Colorado. In Boston in
2009, Mary Lynch gave the premier of the Oboe Concerto by
Benjamin Pesetsky (1989- ).
Principal horn 1926-1927, horn 1927-1928. As Cleveland Principal,
the horn section under Macdonald was: Walter Macdonald,
Bertram Haigh, Edward E. Grant, Roman Cras, Vaclav Kec,
and Ernest Paananen. (also Boston Symphony horn 1932-1955)
Studied at the New England Conservatory class of 1921.
Walter Macdonald died suddenly during the Boston Symphony 1954-1955
season on March 30, 1955.
1926-1928
Mackey, Richard
(Pennsylvania 1929- )
horn (also Kansas City, San Antonio Symphony, Detroit Symphony, New Orleans
Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra 1955-1963, Japan Philharmonic Principal horn
1963-1965, Hollywood studio sessions player about 1965-1973, Boston Symphony
January 1973-August 2005)
Studied at the New England Conservatory class of 1950.
1955-1963
Machan, Leon
Principal piano 1932-1945
1932-1945
Mack, John
(1927-2006)
Principal oboe (also the Sadler Wells Ballet 1951-1952 tour of the US, also New Orleans Symphony
Principal oboe 1952-1963. National Symphony of Washington DC 1963-1965. also in 1951 and 1952
Principal oboe of the Pablo Casals Festivals - Prades, France and then in Perpignan, France)
Studied at the Juilliard School and then Curtis Institute, BMus Class of 1951, one of the last
students of Marcel Tabuteau. For more than 25 years, John Mack taught at the John Mack Oboe Camp,
a summer music camp organized in 1976 by New York Philharmonic Principal oboe
Joseph Robinson, a John Mack student - a camp that still continues today.
violin 1955-1959, Assistant Concertmaster 1959-1967, Associate
Concertmaster 1967-1969, appointed Concertmaster in May 1969 when
Rafael Druian abruptly resigned, served as Concertmaster 1969-1993
(also US Army Band, Washington DC 1951-1955)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1950.
1955-1993
Died during the 1993-1994 season on November 28, 1993, age 61 from the effects
of prostate cancer.
Principal clarinet (also National Symphony of Washington DC Second clarinet
1945-1946 and 1949-1950, Principal clarinet 1950-1953. also 1946-1949, US Air Force Band
in Washington)
Early studies were with Earl Handlon, bass clarinet of the Minneapolis Symphony. In 1944
studied with his great predecessor as Principal clarinet in Cleveland:
Daniel Bonade. Marcellus taught at Northwestern University,
Chicago 1974-1994.
1953-1973
retired at the end of the 1972-1973 season consequent to health complications
from diabetes
Marcosson, Sol
(Kentucky 1869-1940)
First Concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, 1918-1919,
later returned as a sub, and as viola 1928-1931. (also a founder of the
Marcosson Quartette, later renamed the Cleveland Philharmonic
String Quartet. The 1908 Marcosson Quartette was:
Sol Marcosson first,
Charles Rychlik second,
James Johnston viola, Charles Heydler cello.
Click on the thumbnail picture below to see the Marcosson Quartette
in 1908.
Marcosson Quartette in 1908 (click on image to enlarge)
.
Sol Marcosson played with the various unsuccessful symphony
orchestras prior to the Cleveland Orchestra during 1900-1920:
The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Grand
Orchestra, and the Cleveland Municipal Orchestra)
Studied at the Berlin Akademische Hochschule für Musik,
graduating in about 1890.
1918-1919, 1928-1931
Maresh, Ferdinand or Fernando (Ohio 1918-1986)
Double bass 1967-1970 (also
All-American Youth Orchestra of 1940, Cleveland Orchestra 1941-1942, 1945-1948,
Philadelphia Orchestra 1967-1986)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1940. Wrote the interesting book
Transatlantic passenger steamships to Philadelphia in 1985. Maresh
died suddenly November 29, 1986.
1941-1942, 1945-1948
Maret, Stanley Ross
(Missouri 1926- )
contrabassoon
Studied at the Eastman School of Music BMus 1948 (as did his fellow bassoon
George Goslee), University of Colorado MMus in composition 1956.
1962-1997
Mark, Malcolm
(Scotland 1902-1988)
viola (also Indianapolis Symphony, National Symphony of Washington DC
120.
From a musical family, brothers Malcolm and Alexander were also
musicians. Studied violin in Edmonton, Canada, and at the
New England Conservatory of Music.
violin 1929-1937, keyboard 1933-1937 (also New York Philharmonic
including under Mahler 1905-1911, Saint Paul Symphony
1911-1912, San Francisco Symphony Assistant Concertmaster 1915-1917, Philadelphia
Orchestra violin 1917-1920, Cleveland Orchestra violin 1929-1937,
Concertmaster Oakland Symphony in late 1930s, in New York, a string quartet
with Alexander Saslavsky first, Herman Martonne second, A. Bernstein viola,
Herbert Riley cello about 1912-1915)
Studied at the Vienna Hochschule für Musik about 1894-1897.
First Assistant Principal Second Violin 2008-present,
violin 1997-2008. (also Cincinnati Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony)
Studied at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
1997-present
May, Frank
bass
1937-1942, 1945-1974
Mayhall, Walter S.
flute, piccolo (also Kansas City Symphony, Youngstown Symphony -
Ohio Principal flute, Dana Woodwind Quintet - Ohio, consisting
of Walter Mayhall flute, Loyal Mould oboe, Joseph Lapinski clarinet,
Donald W. Byo bassoon, and Lois Hopkins horn 102)
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music with
Maurice Sharp. Taught at the
Youngstown State University - Ohio 103.
1945-1946
Mayhew, Michael Lynn Jr.
(Texas 1970- )
Associate Principal horn (also Syracuse Symphony Assistant Principal
horn)
Studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music BMus 1992, Shepherd School
of Music - Rice University MMus.
1997-present
McAllister, J. R.
bass
1918-1919
McBride, Charles
(Ohio 1902-1973)
cello (also played on Cleveland radio station WGAR as a chamber group:
Ben Silverberg piano, Charles McBride cello, Waldberg Brown violin, Ted Rautenberg violin)
Leonard Rose credits Charles McBride for helping him adjust to the orchestra:
"...Charlie...was both a solid musician and a generous friend. He literally
saved my musical life many times over....he would volunteer, 'Lenny, look at this
place,' or 'Lenny, be careful here..."
Second horn (also Colorado Symphony Fourth horn and the Colorado Brass)
Studied first with his mother, Susan McCullough, Instructor of Horn at Lamont School of
Music, University of Denver. Then admitted to the Juilliard School. Also active
in summer festivals, including the Festival of the Two Worlds - Italy, the
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music - California. Jesse McCormick with
Susan McCullough will host the 40th Annual International Horn Symposium in Denver,
and he also teaches each summer at the Kendall Betts Horn Camp - New Hampshire.
Principal Clarinet 1941-1942, 1946-1947 (also Philadelphia Orchestra
Principal clarinet 1930-1931, Principal clarinet 1931-1940, during
World War 2, 1942-1945 U.S. Navy Band. In the 1947-1948 season,
McGinnis was Principal clarinet of the NBC Symphony under Toscanini,
then New York Philharmonic as Principal clarinet 1948-1960, Co-Principal
clarinet (with Philip Fath) with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
1964-1969.
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1935. Robert McGinnis,
Melvin Headman, and
Robert Bloom entered the
Philadelphia Orchestra directly from the Curtis Institute in
1930 upon the decision of Leopold Stokowski, although they
'officially' graduated in the Curtis Class of 1935.
Erwin Miersch with Ernani Angelucci behind him in 1949
Fourth horn (also Detroit Symphony probably 1926-1935 with Albert Stagliano
and James Stagliano Principal and Second horns and also Ernest Hubner
(listed at Ernst Huebner), also Boston Symphony 1913-1919)
As a teacher, published Melodious Studies for French Horn, still
used today.
Principal timpani 1918-1931, 1933-1935, percussion 1948-1952
Appointed Principal timpani by Arthur Rodzinski in 1933-1934, but after two
seasons, dismissed by Rodzinski before rejoining Cleveland in 1948. At this
time, the percussion section was Cloyd Duff timpani, Emil Sholle and Frank Sholle
percussion, and Harry Miller percussion.
1918-1931, 1933-1935, 1948-1952
Miller, Harry
viola
1944-1948
Miller, Michael
(Ohio 1971- )
photo: Roger Mastroianni, n.d.
Fourth trumpet (also Charlotte Symphony about 1993-2005 as trumpet and
then Principal trumpet 2001-2005, Savannah Symphony)
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and
four years at the Conservatory of Music at Baldwin-Wallace
College, University of Cincinnati MMus, and study in
Ecuador under a Fulbright scholarship.
Also coaches the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra.
spring 2006-present
Miller, Samuel (1891- )
Principal trumpet (also New York Symphony,
San Francisco Symphony, Detroit Symphony)
1920-1921
Millrood, George B.
(Ohio 1913-1977)
violin
Taught music at Phillips Exeter Academy in Massachusetts 1936-1943.
(Mills was an NBC radio broadcasting
musician, based in New York City in the 1930s. also Mills was later
a long-time Hollywood studio session musician, including recording
sessions with Frank Sinatra and others into the late 1970s)
1930-1931
Missits, Ioana
(Romania )
photo: Roger Mastroianni, n.d.
violin (also Pittsburgh Symphony violin, Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra violin,
the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra - Chicago)
Studied at the Bowling Green State University BMus Performance, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign MMus.
2000-present
Molloy, Sonja K. Braaten
(Minnesota 1976- )
photo: Roger Mastroianni, n.d.
violin (also Canton Symphony Associate Concertmaster)
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music BMus, MMus. Active in
Summer music festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival - Colorado,
Sarasota Music Festival - Florida, National Repertory Orchestra -
a summer training orchestra in Colorado where she was Co-Concertmaster.
July 2000-present
Moor, Bartley C.
Principal piccolo, flute
1925-1926
Moor, Weyert Abram (Netherlands 1877-1959)
Principal flute (also West Point Army Band,
Rivoli Theater Orchestra - Broadway, New York)
While in Cleveland, Weyert Moor was also head of the
flute department of Cleveland Institute of Music 100.
1919-1931
Moore, Yoko Hiroe
(Japan 1948- )
photo by Herbert Ascherman visit www.ascherman.com
Second horn (also Oberlin Woodwind Quartet:
Robert Willoughby flute.
De Vere Moore oboe, George E. Wain 1903-1999
clarinet at Oberlin faculty 1929- ,
Martin Morris horn, Kenneth Moore bassoon)
Studied at Case Western Reserve University. Taught at Oberlin College 1950s and
1960s, Cleveland Institute of Music, Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory
of Music.
violin (also NYC Broadway shows, New Opera Company and Ballet
Theater - New York, Dallas Symphony, CBS Radio Orchestra,
Cleveland Orchestra 1949-1953, Boston Symphony 1953-1995)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1936 and the Peabody Conservatory.
1949-1953
then to BSO for 42 seasons
Munroe, Lorne A. (Canada 1924- )
Lorne Munroe in New York
Principal cello (also as well as Cleveland Orchestra Principal cello 1949-1950,
Minneapolis Symphony 1950-1951, Philadelphia Orchestra Principal cello
1951-1964, New York Philharmonic Principal cello 1964-1996)
When 14, Lorne Munroe was taken to London by his sponsor,
Australian composer/pianist Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960), where he
studied with Benjamin and with cello teacher Ivor James (1882-1963)
at the Royal College of Music. He also studied at the Curtis Institute
in the same class as
Paul Olefsky,
graduating in 1947.
viola (also acting Principal viola of the Florida Philharmonic and
of the Florida Grand Opera - Miami)
Starting with violin, Nelson studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music,
BMus and MMus (moving to viola during MMus studies). As a student,
Eastern Music Festival - North Carolina. Also
Royal Academy of Music - London artist diploma under Fulbright scholarship.
Like William Preucil, Eliesha Nelson began studied early with the Suzuki
method; then Indiana String Academy at age 12. Recorded Quincy Porter:
The Complete Viola Works on Dorian CD.
2000-present
Nemkovsky, Philip
trombone
1921-1922
Nereim, Linnea
(Illinois 1950- )
bass clarinet (also Colorado Philharmonic - now the National Repertory
Orchestra, Florida Symphony bass clarinet)
Studied at Northwestern University BMus Ed.
Linnea Nereim's Cleveland Orchestra bio states: "...her clarinet
tone provided the original character for the popular video
game Ms. Pacman.." (which is fun!)
Principal percussion (also Detroit Symphony Principal percussion 2010-2011,
New World Symphony - Florida, a training
orchestra for young professionals)
Studied at Northwestern University - Chicago BMus and the Juilliard School
MMus. Also active in summer music festivals, including the Verbier Festival
- Switzerland, the Pacific Music Festival - Japan. While at Juilliard,
Jacob Nissly co-premiered the Roberto Sierra (1953- ) Bongo +,
a percussion concerto.
2011-present
Nowinski, David (or Nowiński)
(Poland 1875-perhaps returned to Poland)
violin (also Stanley Theater orchestra - Philadelphia, also
Worcester Festival Orchestra - Massachusetts 1915,
Philadelphia Orchestra under Fritz Scheel and Leopold Stokowski
1906-1917)
Taught at the University of Pennsylvania School of Music prior
to the Philadelphia Orchestra.
harp 1980-1981, Assistant Principal harp 1980-1992
(also Halcyon Ensemble:
Martha Aarons flute,
Gino Raffaelli violin,
Gary Stucka
cello, Laura Okuniewski harp, Janina Kuzma harpsichord,
Richard Winer percussion)
1980-1992
Omers, Constant Edward (Belgium 1881-1958)
Principal percussion with Frank Sholle and David Klinger as
his assistants during the 1930s (also played summers in
Los Angeles beginning in 1930s)
1922-1924, 1924-1944
Ormond, Edward
(Michigan )
viola 1959-1971, First Assistant Principal viola 1971-1989, acting
Principal viola 1976-1977, Assistant Principal viola 1988-1997
(also Saint Louis Symphony Assistant Principal viola until 1959.
Saint Louis conductor
Édouard van Remoortel in 1958-1959 tried to
fire 42 of the 85 musicians, including Edward Ormond, who then left
for Cleveland at higher pay. also Cleveland Octet:
Erich Eichhorn violin, Edward Ormond viola,
Lucien Joel viola, Gary Stucka cello, Scott Haigh bass, Theodore Johnson
clarinet, George Goslee bassoon, David Glasser horn)
Edward Ormond played the viola d'amore in the famous 1974 Cleveland Orchestra
performance of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet under Lorin Maazel.
1959-1997
Osbun, Mark T.
trombone
1918-1920
Otto, Peter (Germany 1975- )
First Associate Concertmaster (also Saint Louis Symphony 2001-2007
violin 2001-2005 and Assistant Concertmaster 2005-2007,
also the Cleveland Orchestra
Piano Trio:
Joela Jones piano,
Peter Otto violin,
Richard Weiss cello))
Studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater - Rostock, Germany
and at the Juilliard School MMus. His performance have revealed, among
other works, the qualities of the Eugène Ysaÿe Sonata no 1
"Joseph Szigeti" for solo violin, a challenging work.
violin (also active in Summer music festivals, including the Marlboro
Music Festival)
Studied at the Juilliard School BMus 1988, MMus, Indiana University
School of Music DMus and a minor in arts administration.
September 1995-present
Parmelee, Dan
violin
1920-1921
Paskewitz, Morris
cello
1920-1922
Patterson, Joanna
(Monaco 1985- )
photo: Roger Mastroianni, n.d.
viola (also Canton Symphony - Ohio Principal viola,
Sarasota Music Festival Principal viola)
Studied at the Seattle Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland
Institute of Music. Both parents are musicians: Ronald Patterson
was Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Concertmaster (where Joanna was born
and grew up), and Roxanna Patterson is also a violiSaint
violin (made his New York debut at Aeolean Hall, October 22, 1923. as a
musician, was primarily based in Cincinnati. also Perutz String Quartet: Robert
Perutz first, Thomas Williams second, Peter Froehlich viola, and Desire Danczowski
cello in the 1920s)
Recorded the Wieniawski Valse Caprice for Gennett Records of Indiana in
the late 1920s. He taught at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. His last days seem to
have been sad: Perutz suffered from poison in November, 1933, but recovered
132. He died in Cincinnati on February 27, 1934 of exposure
after having taken a drug 133.
horn with Frank Brouk Principal horn, Martin Morris Second horn and
Ralph Peterson Third horn during his Cleveland Orchestra service.
1944-1948
Peterson, Thomas
clarinet 1963-1981, Assistant Principal clarinet 1980-1995, saxophone
1963-1995
Peyrebrune, Henry L., Jr.
(New York 1964- )
bass (also National Arts Centre Orchestra - Ottawa Principal bass
1994-1997, Portland Symphony - Maine Principal bass, as a youth,
played in the Albany Symphony - New York ages 15-18)
Studied at the New England Conservatory of Music BMus 1987.
1997-present
Phillips, Bert
cello
1958-1959
Phillips, Ronald
bassoon 1960-1975, 1978-1981, Assistant Principal
bassoon 1980-2001 (also Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra,
United States Navy Band, New Orleans Symphony)
Studied at the Eastman School of Music.
1960-1975, 1978-1981, 1980-2001
Pikler, Charles Robert
(California 1951- )
photo: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, n.d.
violin (also Minnesota Orchestra 1971-1973, Rotterdam Philharmonic
1976-1978, Chicago Symphony violin 1978-1986, Principal viola
1986-present, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Ars Viva Orchestra,
Chicago Symphony String Quartet. also in Illinois, active in the
Northbrook Symphony, and the River Cities Philharmonic - 100 km SW
of Chicago. founder and Music Director of
I-Solisti, a chamber orchestra which is part of the Midwest
Young Artists Festival)
In 1990, Charlie Pinkler gave the premiere of Frank Beezhold (1915-1989)
Viola Concerto, composed for him, with the Civic Orchestra
of Chicago (CSO training orchestra.
1973-1976
Pittenger, Raymond
violin
1929-1934
Pitts, Timothy
bass
1985-1992
Pivonka, Thomas Joseph
(Bohemia, now Slovakia 1881-1956)
bass
Emigrated from Bohemia (now Slovakia) to Cleveland at age 8.
1918-1919, 1920-1957
did not complete the 1956-1957 season, dying on November 22, 1956.
Taught at the Peabody Conservatory. Emigrated to the US in 1920.
1928-1929
Polak, Anton
trombone
1918-1919
Polisi, William
(Pennsylvania 1908-1984)
Principal bassoon 1933-1935, 1936-1937 (also Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Orchestra, NBC Symphony 1937-1943, New York Philharmonic Principal
bassoon 1943-1958, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Co-Principal
bassoon 1958-1959)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1935. Designed and
manufactured the Polisi bassoon. Taught at the Juilliard School
1951-1981.
1933-1935, 1936-1937
Polyakin, Lev
(Russia - now Uzbekistan 1953- )
violin 1981-1999, Assistant Concertmaster 1999-present (also
American Academy of Conducting Orchestra - Aspen Music Festival
Concertmaster)
Studied at the Moscow Conservatory. He has recorded several CDs
with his jazz group Russian Blue. Polyakin is featured on
the Grammy-nominated Decca recording of Paul Schoenfield Cafe Music,
inspired by Paul Schoenfield's experiences playing piano at Murphy's
Steakhouse in Minneapolis (fun !)
1981-present
Portnoy, Bernard
(Pennsylvania 1914-2006)
(photograph by Zinn, Arthur, and Kufeld, n.d. Courtesy of the
Cleveland Orchestra Archives)
Principal clarinet (also Pittsburgh Symphony Principal clarinet under
Fritz Reiner about 1937-1940, Philadelphia Orchestra Principal
clarinet 1940-1943, Cleveland Orchestra Principal clarinet 1947-1953,
in 1950s,a New York sessions musician, including the Broadway cast
recording of My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews,
also in New York, played regularly in the WOR Mutual Broadcasting
Orchestra)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1937. Taught at both the
Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute.
1947-1953
Posell, Jacques
(New York 1909-2000) born in New York City of French parents
bass 1936-1939, 1978-1985, Principal bass 1939-1966, Co-Principal bass
1966-1978
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1935.
Gave the premier of Gardiner Read's Christmas Plantation Song
opus 63 for double bass and piano in 1945.
1936-1978
Poteet, Ewing
violin
1940-1947
Powelson, Frank
clarinet
1918-1919
Powers, Jeffrey
(Texas 1953- )
horn (also Hong Kong Philharmonic Second horn, New Jersey Symphony
Second horn, Philharmonic Orchestra of Caracas - Venezuela Fourth
horn, Royal Philharmonic of Flanders - Belgium for 16 seasons,
Waco Symphony - Texas Principal horn and Abilene Philharmonic
- Texas Principal horn)
Studied at the Austin College - Texas BA with "Honors in Music"
and the Cleveland Institute of Music MMus.
died suddenly of a heart attack in New York age 53.
Assistant First trumpet (to New York Philharmonic as Second trumpet under Principals
Harry Glantz and William Vacchiano 1929-1963, when he died during the 1962-1963 season)
Studied in New York with legendary trumpet teacher Max Schlossberg.
fellow musicians said that Nathan Prager could have been a Principal trumpet at one
of the leading orchestras, but did not want the pressures of a first chair position.
Also, that Prager turned down an invitation of NBC to play with Harry Glantz in
1942, because he was afraid he would also have to play first trumpet in the
NBC staff orchestra.
Concertmaster (also Nashville Symphony Concertmaster, Utah Symphony
Concertmaster, Atlanta Symphony Concertmaster 1982-1989. Cleveland
Quartet, William Preucil first, Peter Salaff second, James Dunham
viola, and Paul Katz cello 1989-1995, Concertmaster of the Orchestra
of the Mostly Mozart Festival of San Diego, California 1995-present)
Studied at Indiana University about 1974-1978 receiving the Performer's
Certificate. Recorded the interesting Stephen Paulus
Violin Concerto (New World Records) dedicated to
Preucil, and performed with the Atlanta Symphony.
April, 1995-present
Pripadcheff, Alexander (Russia 1897- )
died while on a visit to his family in
Siberia in July, 1971 80.
Principal clarinet (also in 1920, joined the touring Russia Grand Opera
Company touring China and Japan, 1921 in US, where he continued with the
Russian Grand Opera Company, as Second clarinet 1922-1923.
Principal clarinet of the Metropolitan Opera in the 1930s-1960s.)
Studied at the Imperial Conservatory in Moscow 80. In 1920s,
also continued his clarinet studies with Simeon Bellison (1883-1953)
who was later Principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic.
1931-1933
Prohaska, Paul
bass
1921-1923
Proto, Dino
(Italy 1903- ) grew up in New York City from age 10
Assistant Concertmaster (also played and was a contractor of musicians of the
Brooklyn Philharmonic in the 1950s)
Studied first with his father Nicholas Proto, a musician and piano tuner.
1940-1947
Pugatsky, William
violin
1920-1921
Puletz, Rudolph Jr.
(New York 1908-1974)
Principal horn (also in the 1930s played in Georges Barrère's
Barrère Little Symphony and with the Barrère Ensemble:
Georges Barrère flute, Carlos Mullenix oboe, Fred van Amburgh clarinet,
Angel del Busto bassoon 129. American Woodwind Players in
1940s. In 1941, Rudolph Puletz joined
several other first chair musicians, including:
Merritt Dittert
trombone,
Louis Davidson
trumpet,
Leonard Sharrow
bassoon, and
John Coffey
bass trombone to go to
Argentina to play under Arturo Toscanini at the Teatro Colon.
New York Philharmonic Principal horn 1941-1946, dismissed - as were
many other musicians - by Artur Rodzinski. also
played with the Goldman Band and with the Mexico City Symphony
130.)
Studied first with his father, Rudolph Puletz Sr. (1881- ) and his
uncle Frank Puletz (1978-1962), both theater musicians in New York City.
first Assistant Principal viola (also
Amici Quartet since 1987:
Takako Masame first,
Miho Hashizume second,
Lynne Ramsey viola,
Ralph Curry cello. also Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Principal viola, Rochester Philharmonic Principal viola and the new
chamber ensemble Panorámicos)
Studied at the Juilliard School BMus and MMus. Active at music
festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival - Colorado.
January 1989-present
Rathbun, Jeffrey J.
(Missouri 1959- ) grew up in Texas
Assistant Principal oboe 1990-2001, 2003-present, 2001-2003 Principal oboe
(also Honolulu Symphony 1983-1984, Oakland Symphony 1984-1986, San
Francisco Symphony 1986-1988, Atlanta Symphony 1988-1990)
Studied at the University of North Texas BMus 1981, Cleveland Institute
of Music MMus 1983 and is Distinguished Alumni from both institutions.
Also a composer, including Daredevil, Three Psalms of Jerusalem,
Motions for Cellos, which was commissioned by the Cleveland
Orchestra. He CD Color Factory is available from the Cleveland
Orchestra store: www.clevelandorchestra.com/cleveland-orchestra-store
1990-present
Rautenberg, John Leslie
(Ohio 1937- )
photo by Herbert Ascherman visit www.ascherman.com
flute 1961-1980, acting Principal flute 1982-1983,
Associate Principal flute 1980-2005
Studied at Oberlin Conservatory graduated 1958.
1961-2005
Rautenberg, Theodore Herman Jr.
(New York 1900-1961)
Rautenberg as a student at Syracuse University
violin (also played in Cleveland radio station staff orchestras
beginning in 1929, which offered 52 week employment, not offered
by any US symphony orchestra in that era)
Studied at Syracuse University 1923, the Juilliard School about
1924-1927.
1927-1929, 1942-1961
died during the 1960-1961 season on May 8, 1961
Ravagnani, Albert
(Italy 1893-1967)
bass (also Saint Louis Symphony before Cleveland, played in the Cleveland
WPA Orchestra also called the Federal Music Project Orchestra,
giving employment to musicians during the great depression - starting
in about 1937)
Principal bassoon 1918-1920, bassoon, contrabassoon 1922-1923
1918-1923
Reinhardt, Willis
violin
1929-1970
Rennert, Bruno
viola
1919-1920
Ressler, Julius
viola
1924-1927
Rettew, James Edward
(Pennsylvania 1920-1968)
Assistant Principal clarinet and Bass clarinet
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1942.
suffered illness in his later years and died in his native Pennsylvania in 1968,
a few months after his 48th birthday
1944-1959
Reve, Kalman
(Austria-Hungary, now Hungary 1894-1979)
Second Concertmaster - i.e. Assistant Concertmaster. (also
Philadelphia Orchestra violin 1923-1924. In 1930s was in summers a
cruise ship musician,
in 1940s was a New York City Broadway and sessions musician, and played in
the Tommy Dorsey orchestra)
1930-1932
Rey, Albert
oboe, English horn
1919-1922
Rickert, August B.
Second bassoon
1920-1952
Ringwall, Rudolph Carl
(Massachusetts 1891-1978)
violin (also National Symphony Orchestra of New York, Boston Symphony
1913-1915 and 1918-1920, where he left following 1920 musician's strike
for the Cleveland Orchestra)
cello (also Cleveland Orchestra 1942-1943, 1946-1955, Glenn Miller Air Force
Orchestra during World War 2, Boston Symphony 1955-1995)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1942, Cleveland Institute
BM 1951. Also several times Chairman of the BSO Player's Committee,
representing the Orchestra.
1942-1943, 1946-1955
Robbins, Channing
cello
1940-1941
Robertello, Thomas
Principal piccolo 1988-1989
1988-1989
Roberts, (Francis) Chester
(Massachusetts 1921- ) still active in 2011
Principal tuba 1950-1967 (also Pittsburgh Symphony Principal Tuba
under Reiner, San Francisco Symphony Principal tuba 1967-1969)
Studied at the New England Conservatory. In summers played in the
Chautauqua Symphony. Also taught at Western Reserve University -
Ohio, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the New England Conservatory
and Boston University School of Music.
1950-1967
Roberts, Richard
Assistant Concertmaster
1974-1982
Roman, Isadore
(Russia - now Ukraine 1905-1978)
violin (also played in the staff orchestra of WTAM radio - Cleveland,
then moved to California where he became a Hollywood studio sessions
musician)
violin (also Midland-Odessa Symphony - Texas Concertmaster,
Everest Quartet:
Stephen Rose first,
Jeanne Preucil Rose second,
Joan DerHovsepian viola - now with the Houston Symphony,
Brant Taylor cello)
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music BMus and Eastman
School of Music MMus and Performer’s Certificate.
violin 1997-2001, Principal Second Violin 2001-present (also
Everest Quartet:
Stephen Rose first,
Jeanne Preucil Rose second,
Joan DerHovsepian viola - now with the Houston Symphony,
Brant Taylor cello 1992-1996)
Active in music
festivals including the Festival der Zukunft - Switzerland,
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival - Washington,
Mainly Mozart Festival - San Diego, Seattle Chamber
Music Festival, Music at Gretna, Mimir Chamber
Music Festival - Texas, Pacific Music Festival - Japan)
1997-present
Rosen, Jerome
(Michigan 1939- )
violin, keyboard (also American Symphony 1967-1968, Boston Symphony
1972-1999, Detroit Symphony Associate Concertmaster 1970-1971,
Boston Pops 1972-1973, Cleveland Piano Trio with James Levine, Lynn Harrell)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1959, Cleveland Institute of
Music BM. Also studied mathematics at Western Reserve University.
Conducting apprentice while in Cleveland with George Szell.
Now conducting Independence Sinfonia Orchestra in Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania.
1959-1967
Rosenberg, Fred
viola
1933-1943
Rosenwein, Frank M.
(Illinois 1978- )
Principal oboe (also San Diego Symphony Principal oboe and San Diego Opera Principal
oboe 2002-2005)
Rosenwein studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music BMus, studying with his
predecessor, John Mack, and the Juilliard School MMus. As Head of the Oboe Department,
teaches at his alma mater the Cleveland Institute of Music. Also active in summer
music festivals, including the Marlboro Festival - Vermont, the Mainly Mozart Festival
- San Diego and the Seattle Chamber Music Society.
2005-present
Rosevear, Lloyd William (1940- )
horn (later New York sessions musician)
1965-1966
Rowe, George D.
(about 1893- )
Associate Principal clarinet, E-flat Clarinet 1924-1944,
bass clarinet 1927-1928 (also Philadelphia Orchestra
E-flat clarinet 1944-1957)
Studied clarinet with
Paul Mimart of the Boston Symphony and
Joseph Schreurs
Principal clarinet of the Chicago Symphony. While serving in the
Navy during the First World War, he studied with Prosper Mimart
(1859-1918) of the Paris Conservatoire. While in Cleveland, taught
Cleveland Institute of Music and in summers at the Interlochen Music
Camp - Michigan. After the Philadelphia Orchestra, taught
at the Philadelphia Musical Academy in the 1960s.
1924-1944
Rozanel, David (1881- )
trombone
1919-1920
Rozanel, Elizer (Poland about 1885-probably during 1960s)
Principal trumpet (also Philadelphia Orchestra trumpet 1917-1918)
Elizer (or Eliezer) was one of five brass musician brothers, Louis,
David, Morris, Meyer, and Elizer Rozanel who emigrated from Poland, then
under Russian rule, to play mostly in New York City orchestras, but
also in the case of Elizer in Philadelphia and Cleveland, and David
in Cleveland)
oboe, English horn (also Chicago Symphony oboe 1920-1940)
Ruckle was also a long-term oboe teacher at the High School level
and created a successful business making reeds to sell to students
114.
1918-1919
Ruggieri, Frank
(Pennsylvania 1906-2003)
Principal bassoon (also Fox Theater orchestra - Philadelphia, National
Symphony of Washington DC 1932-1933, Cleveland Orchestra Principal
bassoon 1937-1946 with a break of two seasons due to World War 2,
New York City Center Opera and the Radio City Music Hall 1946-1948,
New York Philharmonic Second bassoon 1949-1972)
Studied with his uncle, Robert Sensale who was contra-bassoon
with the New York Philharmonic for 37 years, and at the Curtis
Institute Class of 1932.
1937-1943, 1945-1946
Ruske, Eric (Illinois 1963- )
Associate Principal horn (also Empire Brass Quintet)
Studied at Northwestern University. Appointed by Christoph von Dohnányi in
1984, Ruske departed to pursue a career as concert soloist with the
Empire Brass Quintet and with many orchestras and chamber groups after winning
a series of competitions. Succeeded by
Richard King as Associate Principal horn.
1984-1988
Ruta, Armand
bass trumpet, trombone 1931-1934, Principal trombone 1927-1934
1927-1934
Rychlik, Charles Vaclav
(Ohio 1875-1962)
violin (also Prague Opera orchestra, Philharmonic String Quartet in
Prague. also performed with the Bohemian
String Quartet in Europe, Chicago Symphony violin 1897-1898,
Marcosson Quartette 1908-1928:
Sol Marcosson first,
Charles Rychlik second,
James Johnston viola, Charles Heydler cello.
Click on the thumbnail
picture below to see the Marcosson Quartette in 1908.
Marcosson Quartette in 1908 (click on image to enlarge)
Studied at the Prague Conservatory 1891-1895. Violin teacher
in Cleveland in 1920s. A composer whose works were performed by
the Cleveland Orchestra and Detroit Symphony. It is said that 40
of his students became Cleveland Orchestra musicians.
Principal trumpet (also Houston Symphony 1986-1988)
UCLA BA History, Juilliard BMus. An event to look forward to is the
premiere of a Michael Hersch (1971- ) trumpet concerto, commissioned by
Cleveland, planned for a Michael Sachs - Cleveland premiere in
about November 2011. Michael Sachs has recorded many works with the Cleveland Orchestra,
including the von Dohananyi - Ives recording shown at right.
Also see Michael Sachs' interesting website
www.michaelsachs.com
1988-present
Sager, Marisela
(California 1977- )
Assistant Principal Flute (also Baltimore Symphony Principal flute,
student with the New World Symphony - Miami)
Studied at the San Diego State University BMus, and Shepherd School
of Music - Rice University MMus. Active in summers, including several times at the
Summerfest La Jolla in California.
2005-present
Salkin, Samuel
violin
1920-1968
Salkowski, John A.
(Ohio 1937- )
John Salkowski in Boston
double bass (also New Orleans Philharmonic double bass under conductor
Alexander Hilsberg
before the Cleveland Orchestra, also Boston Symphony double bass 1966-2007)
Studied at the Northwestern University School of Music BMus.
1962-1966
Salvatore, Fred
bass
1921-1923
Sampliner, Sidney
violin
1918-1919
Samuels, Leonard K.
(New York 1927-1995)
violin (also Cantilena Quartet: Eileen Davis first,
Leonard Samuels second,
Yarden Faden viola,
Harvey Wolfe cello)
Of Lithuanian-Jewish heritage, studied at the University of Illinois. Well known
by Cleveland Orchestra audiences for his distinctive beard and pony-tail, grown
after the tenure of George Szell. Samuels died suddenly of a heart attack just at
the end of the Blossom Music Festival of the Cleveland
1994-1995 season.
1957-1995
Sant'Ambrogio, Stephanie
violin 1984-1990, first Assistant Principal violin 1990-1991
1984-1991
Sartorius, Arnold Johann
(Germany 1880-1951)
photo thanks to grandaughter Loraine Sartorius Izzo
percussion (also a musician in the Metropolitan Theater, Cleveland, in
later 1920s and 1930s a musician in the Roxy Theater, New York City)
cello (also summer programs of the Boston Pops beginning 1950,
San Antonio Symphony Principal cello 1953-1955, Pittsburgh Symphony
Assistant Principal cello, Cincinnati Symphony Principal cello 1960-1963,
San Francisco Symphony Principal cello 1963-1976,
founded and conducted the San Francisco Young Professionals
Orchestra in 1977)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1948. Seiji Ozawa wanted to re-seat
Robert Sayre from Principal cello, Rolf Persinger from Principal viola, and
Donald Reinberger from Principal trumpet 128. Sayre did not accept
demotion and instead resigned from the SFSO at the end of the 1975-1976 season
to pursue a solo playing career and conducting.
1949-1952
Schaffer, Max
viola
1930-1937
Schandler, Hyman
Principal Second violin 1933-1964, violin 1927-1933, 1964-1975
(also Mansfield String Quartet: Eugene Weinberger first,
Hyman Schandler second,
Samuel Goldblum viola, and
Isadore Gordon cello)
Emigrated to the US as a child in 1908. Studied at the Prague Conservatory with
Otakar Ševčík (1852-1934) before returning to the US in 1924-1926.
1929-1930
Schettler, Theodore
bass
1942-1956
Schiller, Steven
trumpet, cornet
1972-1973
Schinner, Karl
horn
1927-1934
Schlueter, Charles
(Illinois 1939- )
(l to r) Bernard Adelstein, David Zauder, Charles Schlueter, Glenn
Fischthal during 1970 Asia tour
Principal trumpet 1967-1972 (also Kansas City Philharmonic Principal
trumpet 1962-1964, Milwaukee Symphony Principal trumpet 1964-1967,
after Cleveland, returned to Minnesota as Principal trumpet of the Minnesota
Orchestra 1972-1981, Boston Symphony Principal trumpet 1981-2006)
Studied at the Juilliard School, graduated in 1962. At Juilliard,
William Vacchiano became Charles Schlueter's mentor and friend.
Third horn (also Baldwin-Wallace Brass Quintet: James Darling trumpet, Mary Squire trumpet,
Albert Schmitter horn, Alan Kofski trombone, Ronald Bishop tuba)
Taught at Baldwin-Wallace College - Ohio 1983-1995.
1963-1965, 1968-1995
Schones, Maurice Joseph
(then Russia, now Ukraine 1896-1969)
cello (also New Jersey Symphony cello in 1940s, National Symphony Orchestra of Washington DC
cello in the 1950s and 1960s)
1920-1921
Schreiber, Otto
Eb clarinet and bass clarinet
1926-1927
Schuller, Arthur
violin
1965-1966
Schultz, George
Principal percussion
1918-1919
Schwartz, Bernard
Second trumpet
1919-1921, 1922-1925
Schwartz, David
(Michigan 1916- )
viola 1937-1941, Principal viola 1941-1942 entered the Cleveland Orchestra
directly out of the Curtis Institute. (also the 1941 All-American Youth Orchestra
under Leopold Stokowski, Detroit Symphony under Paul Paray, NBC radio New York
staff orchestra, Puerto Rico Symphony Principal viola for its inaugural
season under Pablo Casals 1958-1959. Active in chamber music, he performed with
three famous quartets: Walden String Quartet:
Homer Schmitt first,
Bernard Goodman
second,
David Schwartz viola,
Robert Swenson cello. the Paganini Quartet:
Henri Temianka first, Charles Libove second, David Schwartz viola,
Lucien Laporte cello. the Yale Quartet: Broadus Erle first, Yoko Matsuda second,
David Schwartz viola, Aldo Parisot cello. after moving to Los Angeles, an active
studio musician in Hollywood)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1937. Taught at the Yale School of Music
1962-1969, and the California Institute of the Arts.
horn 1934-1937, Principal horn 1933-1934
(also Philadelphia Orchestra horn 1939-1942,
Detroit Symphony Principal horn prior to the
Philadelphia Orchestra, probably about 1937-1939)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1932. Artur Rodzinski knew
Seder from Curtis and hired him as Principal horn in Cleveland, before
having second thoughts, and demoting him. The Benhard Heiden
Sonate for Horn and Piano was written in 1939 for Theodore Seder
who at that time was First horn of the Detroit Symphony. Seder
later became the Librarian of the Fleisher Music Collection
at the Free Library of Philadelphia. One of his achievements
was completion of a score for the Ives Symphony number 4 which
was then given its premier by Stokowski and the American Symphony
in April, 1965.
1933-1937
See, William J.
cello
1920-1921
Selcer, Ben
viola
1934-1977
Senofsky, Berl M.
(Philadelphia 1925-2002) born to Russian immigrant
parents
Assistant Concertmaster
Studied at the Juilliard School, graduating in 1946 winning the
Walter W. Naumburg. While playing in the Cleveland Orchestra,
Senofsky won first prize in the Queen Elisabeth Competition
in Brussels in 1955 84. From 1965-1996, Senofsky
taught at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore where he died.
1951-1955
Senyak, Joseph
viola
1923-1949
Sepulveda, Thomas
(New Mexico 1943- )
bass (also Rochester Philharmonic bass and Kansas City Philharmonic
bass)
Studied at the Colorad State College 1964 and the
Cleveland Institute of Music. Taught at the Conservatory of
Music - Oberlin College - Ohio.
1966-1967, 1970-1979, 1981-2001
Serpentini, Ernest brother of Philadelphia Orchestra clarinet
Jules Serpentini
(Italy 1894-1953)
oboe 1923-1924, 1932-1945, 1946-1953, English horn 1933-1945
(also Giuseppe Creatore Band - New York City in 1917, also Philadelphia Orchestra oboe
1924-1926, also Philadelphia theater musician in late 1920s)
Studied first with his band musician father Zopito Serpentini (1863-1915). Emigrated with his
family from the Abruzzi region of Italy to Philadelphia in 1909
violin 1949-1977, first Assistant Principal Second violin
1977-1990 (also US Army Band - Germany during World War 2,
Baltimore Symphony violin about 1946-1949. Elmer and Marie
Setzer came from the Baltimore Symphony to Cleveland, where Elmer joined
the Cleveland Orchestra in the 1949-1950 season and Marie in
1961-1962)
Studied at the Peabody Conservatory - Baltimore, where he met
his wife, Marie De Maria.
violin (also Baltimore Symphony violin in the 1940s-1949. Marie
and Elmer Setzer came from the Baltimore Symphony to Cleveland,
where Elmer joined the Cleveland Orchestra in the 1949-1950
season and Marie in 1961-1962)
Studied at the Peabody Conservatory - Baltimore, where he met
her husband Elmer Setzer. Son Philip Setzer plays
violin in the Emerson String Quartet.
Principal flute 1931-1945, 1947-1982, for contractual reasons,
listed as Second flute 1946-1947 before returning to the
Principal flute chair (also the New York Philharmonic
1945-1946)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1931. Head of the flute
department at the Cleveland Institute of Music 1946-1982.
1931-1945, 1946-1982
Fifty years of service!
Shaw, Carl
violin
1947-1950
Shepard, Arthur
keyboard 1920-1923, Principal piano, celesta 1923-1926
1920-1926
Sherwin, Jonathan (1958- )
bassoon, Contrabassoon (also Colorado Symphony, Chicago Opera Theater and
Chicago City Ballet, New Orleans Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic)
violin (also Houston Symphony Principal Second violin 1998-1999,
Boston Symphony 1999-2001, went to Cleveland Orchestra in
2001-2002 season)
Studied at the San Francisco Conservatory BM 1993 and
Cleveland Institute MM 1996. Active in chamber concerts and
community programs; organized two concerts for the benefit
of the tsunami victims of the Miyagi prefecture of Japan.
2001-present
Shmuklovsky, Dmitri
bass 1934-1936, Principal bass 1936-1937 (also Chicago Civic Opera)
percussion (also musician at the Pricilla Theater, Cleveland)
Son of James Sholle Sr (1873- ), born in Bohemia (now
Czech Republic
1922-1923
Shook, Emma (Oregon 1970- )
violin (also Chicago Lyric Opera, Santa Fe Opera)
Studied at the Juilliard School BMus, MMus. Active in the
Cleveland Orchestra’s "Learning Through Music"
program of outreach school education in music.
2001-present
Showers, Shelley A.
(Pennsylvania 1961- )
acting Principal horn (also Utah Symphony Principal horn 1989-1995,
Cincinnati Symphony acting Associate Principal horn,
New Jersey Symphony horn, Assistant/Utility horn Philadelphia Orchestra
1998-present)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1985; Shelley Showers is
also a trustee of the Curtis Institute. She is on the Board of
Philadelphia Orchestra Retirees & Friends with
Paul Krzywicki.
cello (also in a later version of the Symphonia Quartet:
Kurt Loebel first,
Elmer Setzer second,
John Cox viola,
Jorge Sicre cello. also the Alard String Quartet 1967-1990:
Joanne Zagst first, Donald Hopkins second, Raymond Page viola, Jorge Sicre cello)
Studed first with his music teacher father Juan Sicre, and then at the
Juilliard School graduating in 1956, and later taught at the
Juilliard School.
1961-1991
Sicre, Ursula Urbaniak
(Ohio 1933- )
viola
1981-1991
Siegel, Bert
violin
1965-1995
Siegel, Joan
violin
1965-1995
Silavin, Theodore
violin (also Chicago Symphony violin 1948-1988, also a Chicago recording
sessions musician in the 1960s and 1970s. also played in the string quartet with
Fritz Siegal first,
Theodore Silavin second,
Milton Preves viola,
Harry Sturm cello
in the Chicago debut of Bloch's Concerto Grosso no 2 for String Quartet and
Orchestra in 1957)
1940-1948
Silberstein, Ernst S.
Principal cello 1947-1959, Co-Principal cello 1959-1967 (also
the Perolé Quartet Joseph Coleman first, Max Hollander second,
Lillian Fuchs viola, and Ernst Silberstein cello 1937-1942)
1947-1967
Silfies, George
clarinet, saxophone 1956-1963, keyboard 1957-1963
1956-1963
Silverberg, Ben
violin 1921-1929, 1933-1945, Second Concertmaster 1945-1946
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1990. Early in 1990,
before he had graduated from Curtis, he successfully auditioned with the
Cleveland Orchestra, and was appointed Principal flute by
Christoph von Dohnányi. Smith graduated from Curtis with his artist
diploma in May, 1990, and joined the Cleveland Orchestra. Joshua Smith
has made beautiful recordings of the Bach Flute Sonatas with Jory Vinikour
for Delos (see right)
1990-present
Smith, Melville
Principal organ
1933-1940
Smith, Richard
(Missouri about 1925- )
Second trumpet 1956-1958, Principal trumpet 1958-1960, Third trumpet 1960-1964,
Fourth trumpet 1964-1967 (also Kansas City Philharmonic trumpet about 1940,
Denver Symphony Principal trumpet following World War 2,
Buffalo Philharmonic Principal trumpet 1967-1969 under Lukas Foss, returned to the
Kansas City Philharmonic Principal trumpet 1969-1975, trumpet 1975-1978 shortly
before it dissolved at the end of 1981-1982)
Studied with William Vacchiano.
1956-1967
Snader, Nathan
violin
1967-1996
Snyder, E. C.
trumpet
1920-1921
Solis, Richard
acting Principal horn 1976-1977, Principal horn 1977-1995,
horn 1971-1977, 1995-present
1971-present
Sophos, Anthony
cello
1942-1944
Sorkin, Herbert
violin
1949-1951
Speinson, Morris
(the Russia, now Ukraine 1895-1989)
Morris Speinson with his wife Sophie in his passport picture
for the tour of the Paul Whiteman band in 1923
horn (also touring Vaudeville company in 1910s,
Paul Whiteman Band in 1920s, Samuel Fox Music Publishing
in New York City in 1940s)
In the 1920-1921 season in which Morris Speinson played, the
horn lineup was Wendell Hoss, Morris Speinson, Alphonse J. Pelletier,
John d'Orio and Robert H. Brown.
violin, Assistant Concertmaster (also violin in Toscanini's NBC Symphony
1937-1954. also played in the Symphony of the Air's Far East
tour in May and June, 1955)
Studied first with his concert violinist father and teacher Marcus Spielberg.
viola (later director of a theater orchestra in Cleveland, and
of the orchestra of the Hotel Statler, Cleveland's leading hotel)
1918-1919
Spitalny, Maurice Jacob (Ukraine 1893-1986)
Assistant Concertmaster (later conductor of the Knickerbocker
Theater Orchestra in Cleveland and of the RKO Palace Theatre
in Cleveland, music director of Pittsburgh radio station KDKA)
Studied at the Odessa Conservatory, Ukraine. Later a successful
composer of big band music and songs, and a big band director.
(Shown conducting the KDKA radio orchestra, left)
1918-1920
Spivakovksy, Tossy
Concertmaster
1942-1945
Sroubek, Otakar
violin
1954-1956
Saint Christopher, Saeran (formerly Jennifer Bleick) (Minnesota about 1978- )
photo: Roger Mastroianni, n.d.
flute
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Won the 1999 Concerto Competition
at CIM.
Principal horn (also Detroit Symphony 1930-1934, Saint Louis
Symphony Principal horn 1934-1936, Los Angeles
Philharmonic horn 1936-1944, Cleveland Orchestra 1945-1946,
Boston Symphony 1947-1973, where he was Co-Principal horn with
Willem Valkenier 1947-1950. In California, also a Hollywood
studio musician, particularly with 20th Century Fox and Warner
Brothers including Gone With the Wind. With Sarah Caldwell,
Stagliano was active with the Opera Company of Boston)
Studied with his uncle
Albert Stagliano, Principal horn of the
Detroit Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra. In Boston,
Stagliano helped found Boston Records for which he and
Boston Symphony colleagues recorded a number of innovative
works including Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and
Strings.
Assistant Principal Trumpet (also Charlotte Symphony Principal trumpet
2006-2009, Richmond Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra - Colorado)
Studied at Baldwin Wallace College BMus 2001 - Ohio, Southern Methodist
University MMus 2003.
May, 2009-present
Steelman, Ronald
double bass (joined the Cleveland Orchestra directly on graduating
from the Curtis Institute)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1951.
1951-1953
Stees, Barrick (Michigan 1959- )
Assistant Principal bassoon (also Hartford Symphony
Principal bassoon, also the Chester String Quartet: Brad Opland,
J. Lawrie, Barrick Stees and Gail Williams 89)
Studied at the Eastman School of Music BMus and perforer
certicate. Have a look at his interesting website:
http://www.steesbassoon.com and read of his activities,
including marathon competition.
Assistant Concertmaster (in 1959, Steinhardt won the Leventritt International
Violin Competition, which led to George Szell offering Steinhardt the Cleveland
Orchestra Assistant Concertmaster position 140, sitting next to Josef
Gingold. Steinhardt left the Cleveland Orchestra in the summer of 1964 to found
the Guarneri String Quartet, organized during Marlboro Music Festival that summer:
Arnold Steinhardt first, John Dalley second, Michael Tree viola, David Soyer cello)
Studied in Los Angeles with Toscha Seidel (1899-1962) and then with Ivan Galamian
(1903-1981 at the Curtis Institute Class of 1959. also at Ivan Galamian's
summer music camp: Medowmount 1956-1958.
1959-1964
Stokking, William Jr.
(New Jersey 1933- )
cello 1958-1960, Principal cello 1971-1973
(also Philadelphia Orchestra cello 1960-1966, Philadelphia Orchestra
Principal Cello 1973-2005, Boston Symphony cello 1968-1971, following
retirement, Princeton Chamber Symphony in 2000s)
Dutch-born father, William Stokking Sr. was a professional violinist,
his son his first musical instruction. Stokking studied at the Curtis
Institute, graduating in the Class of 1949.
1958-1960, 1971-1973
Störseth, Rolf Wilham
(Norway 1913-2007)
cello: sixth chair of the cello section during most of his service
(also San Francisco cello following Cleveland)
Studied at the Oslo Conservatory and in Paris with Paul Bazelaire
(1886-1958) at the Paris Conservatoire 126. Also the
Juilliard School MMus.
Assistant Principal harp 1997-2007, Principal harp 2007-present (also Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra, Florida Orchestra, Houston Symphony)
Studied at the Salzedo Harp Colony - Maine with
Alice Chalifoux,
the Conservatory of Music - Oberlin College - Ohio BMus 1991 in
both harp and violin and Cleveland Institute of Music MMus in
both harp and violin. Prior to Oberlin, she also studied piano.
1991-present
Stucka, Gary M.
(Illinois 1952- )
cello (also Winnipeg Symphony Principal cello 1977-1981, Chicago
Symphony 1986-present, Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra Principal cello,
Pressenda Trio, also while in Cleveland, the Halcyon Ensemble:
Martha Aarons flute,
Gino Raffaelli violin,
Gary Stucka cello,
Laura Okuniewski harp, Janina Kuzma harpsichord,
Richard Winer percussion)
Studied at Roosevelt University - College of Performing Arts BM and MM. Recorded the
Easley Blackwood (1933- )Piano Trio with Charles Pikler, violin and the composer
at the piano - Cedille Records (see right).
1981-1986
Stummer, Walter
viola
1953-1991
Stutch, Nathan
cello
1940-1942
Sugiyama, Yasuhito
(Japan )
Principal tuba (also Vienna Philharmonic/Vienna State
Opera Orchestra Vienna State Opera Orchestra 2003-2005, New Japan
Philharmonic tuba under Seiji Ozawa 1997-2003, also regularly with
the Saito-Kinen Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa)
Studied at Soai University - Osaka, Northwestern University - Chicago
and with Robert Tucci - Bavarian State Opera.
Assistant Principal trumpet (to Cincinnati Symphony as Principal,
also New York Philharmonic Associate Principal trumpet,
Charleston Symphony Second trumpet and Associate Principal trumpet,
US Air Force Band - Washington DC)
Studied at the University of Michigan and teaches at the
Cleveland Institute of Music.
2003-2008
Sutphen, Albert
(Ohio 1897-1970)
second trumpet (also played in vaudeville theaters in Kentucky just prior to World War 1, and
also active in the Chautauqua-Lyceum circuit of cultural entertainment
in the 1920s. also Chicago Symphony third trumpet 1925-1926)
Studied in Chicago with Albert Wendon, then with Max Schlossberg
in New York in 1923 129. After his orchestral career, Sutphen was
a music teacher in the schools of Hamilton, Ohio.
1926-1927
Sutte, Jack A.
(Wisconsin 1973- )
photograph by Roger Mastroianni, n.d.
Second trumpet (also Bergen Philharmonic, the Charleston Symphony where he
was substitute principal)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1995 and the Juilliard
School MMus. Teaches at the Conservatory of Baldwin-Wallace College.
violin (also Chicago Symphony Assistant Concertmaster 1979-present, also
Saint Louis Symphony violin, Milwaukee Symphony, Pressenda Piano Trio,
Ars Viva Symphony - Chicago)
Studied first with his musician father and then at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
He went on to the Juilliard School BMus and MMus. David Taylor's CDs are for
Naim (Mendelssohn Octet) and also Koch, New World, and DMP labels. He teaches
at the Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University.
1974-1979
Taylor, Ross Whiteside
(California 1925-1964)
thanks to Mark Overton for this photo: visit his great site - www.saxophone.org
Principal horn (also New York Philharmonic Fourth horn 1948-1950,
San Francisco Symphony Principal horn 1955-1964, founding member
of the California Wind Quintet, consisting of Walter Subke flute
(San Francisco Opera), Raymond Duste oboe (San Francisco Opera),
Donald Carroll
clarinet, Robert Hughes bassoon (Oakland Symphony),
and
Ross Taylor horn)
Studied at the Juilliard School from about 1945-1948. Progressively
showing a more nervous and anxious attitude concerning his career,
Ross Taylor died on September 10, 1964 at age 39,
just before the beginning of the 1964-1965 season.
1950-1955
Terlitzky, Joseph
violin
1923-1928
Teska, Joseph
Principal tuba
1918-1919
Thalin, Walter R.
Principal clarinet
1925-1926
Thaviu, Samuel
(Illinois 1909-2000)
Concertmaster (also Concertmaster of the Chicago Little Symphony
1932 104, Chicago Symphony first violins 1934-1937,
Kansas City Symphony Concertmaster and associate conductor
1937-1942 2, Baltimore Symphony Concertmaster and
associate conductor 1942-1943, Concertmaster of the Pittsburgh
Symphony twice, 1943-1946 under Fritz Reiner and for
seventeen seasons, 1949-1966 under William Steinberg.
Studied with Harry Diamond, Leon Sametini, Jacques Gordon in
Chicago and later with Mischa Mischakoff 104.
Thaviu resigned from the Cleveland Orchestra in January 1947 after learning that in November,
George Szell had secretly signed Joseph Gingold for the next season 134.
Assistant Concertmaster (also Ballets Russes USA in 1942, NBC Symphony under Toscanini 1943-
also Houston Symphony Associate Conductor of the Houston Symphony under Efrem Kurtz and
Ferenc Fricsay in early 1950s. founding member of the Oberlin String Quartet: Andor Toth first,
Matthew Raimondi second, William Berman viola, John Frazer cello)
Studied at the New York High School of Music and Art in the 1930s and then at the
Juilliard School in the 1940s. Taught at Oberlin College - Ohio
1955-1960 and 1972-1978. also taught and conducted at Stanford University 1978–1989.
1948-1949
Totten, Clarence
bass
1935-1941
Traupe, William
Principal Second violin
1921-1933
Trautwein, George
violin
1921-1933
Trautwein, Isabel
(Alabama 1968- )
violin (also New World Symphony - Florida training orchestra, Houston
Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony 1998-2002, Pacifica String Quartet)
Studied in Germany at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, and at the Cleveland
Institute of Music. She is active in teaching children about music, including
playing chamber music. she organized HeightsArtsHouseConcerts -
chamber music concerts in Cleveland Heights for outreach.
violin 1921-1923,
Assistant Concertmaster 1923-1927, Second Concertmaster 1927-1929,
keyboard 1922-1929, Principal piano 1926-1929 (also Principal viola
of the San Francisco Symphony 1931-1934, Los Angeles Philharmonic
about 1934-1938, briefly viola with the Kolisch Quartet about 1937-1941)
In 1952, Jascha Veissi commissioned the work which became the Martinu
Rhapsody-Concerto for Viola and Orchestra. Jascha Veissi
gave the premier with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra in 1953.
In Los Angeles, Veissi owned a magnificent property on Mulholland Drive
in which he later sold to Lauritz Melchior (1890-1973) who in turn later
sold it to Warren Beatty.
1921-1929
Veissi, Laura Newell
Principal harp
1922-1926
Venezia (or Venezie), Frank (1891- )
Principal trumpet (also New York Symphony, New York Philharmonic, CBS radio orchestra,
NBC Symphony)
1925-1926 [dismissed May 1926; succeeded by Alois Hruby]
Principal viola (also the Saint Louis Symphony Associate Principal viola
96 in about 1971-1976, the Silvermine String Quartet:
Paul Wolfe first, Anita Brooker second, Robert Vernon viola, Christopher
von Baeyer cello)
Studied at the Juilliard School where he graduated with honors.
Chairman of the viola department at the Cleveland Institute of
Music. In September, 2008, he was appointed to the music faculty
of his alma mater, the Juilliard School. In May, 2009, he
gave the premiere of the Paul Chihara viola concerto
When Soft Voices Die95.
viola (also Ohio Chamber Orchestra Principal viola)
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music BMus and MMus.
Active in summer music festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival -
Colorado, Sarasota Music Festival - Florida, the Taos Music Festival -
New Mexico and the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival - Vermont where
she also teaches. Active in out-reach programs for children, where
she performs in the public schools as an artist-teacher.
1997-present
Victors, Harry
viola
1919-1920
Vietrt, Scipione
violin
1922-1925
Vignetti, Georges
violin
1902-1922
Vitale, Valerie
harp
1945-1946
Vito, Edward H. brother of
Joseph Vito Chicago Symphony harp
(Illinois 1901-1990)
Edward Vito in a baroque costume in Chicago
Principal harp (also Cincinnati Symphony, also a regular harp soloist on the NBC blue radio
network in the 1930s, based at WGN Chicago. also Principal harp of Toscanini's NBC Symphony.
also played in the Symphony of the Air's Far East tour in May and June, 1955. he was a concert
soloist into the late 1960s)
Studied first with his Italian-born band musician father Joseph Vito (1856-1936).
Edward Vito gave the premier of the Sonata for Flute and Harp by
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987) with
Arthur Lora
Roy Waas, right with
Frank Brouk in Cleveland, 1949
horn (also Kansas City Philharmonic horn 1946-1948 while
a student at the University of Missouri,
Buffalo Philharmonic Principal horn 1973-2003,
Second horn 1969-1973)
Studied at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.
1948-1951, 1953-1966
Wagner, Roland
Principal timpani
1935-1936
Wagnitz, Ralph David (Ohio 1950- )
Extra/Utility Horn, 1972-1977, Second horn 1977-1984 (also the
North American Horn Quartet)
Studied at Ohio State University School of Music.
1977-1984
Wallfisch, Ernst
viola
1949-1953
Walters, Robert (California 1966- )
solo English horn (also Cincinnati Symphony Principal English,
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Principal English horn 1997-2000,
Walters was an active freelance musician in New York City in
the 1990s. Also active in summer festivals including 5 summers
at the Marlboro Music Festival)
Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1990, Columbia University
Master in Fine Arts.
2004-present
Warrick, Elmer J. (not Elmer E.)
(Ohio 1880-1954)
Principal trombone (Primarily a lawyer, but also a musician in Cleveland
theaters)
The Ohio Bar Association in it obituary in 1954 wrote: "...Elmer J. Warrick of Cleveland died
suddenly in his home at the age of 73....Mr. Warrick was also known as a musician, having played
a trombone in the original Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and local legitimate theaters..." 143
Warrick studied law at Ohio State University LL.B. in 1905.
1918-1919
Warner, Carolyn Gadiel
violin, keyboard
1979-present
Warner, Stephen
violin
1979-present
Waugh, Richard
(New Mexico about 1962- )
viola (also Albuquerque Youth Symphony Principal violin 1977-1978,
New Mexico Symphony viola about 1986-1990, Indianapolis Symphony
acting Principal viola 1992-1994)
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music. An athlete,
Waugh was a University of New Mexico NCAA basketball
player, and he is also an active long distance cycliSaint
violin (also the Chicago Civic Orchestra, a youth training orchestra in
1919, its first season of activity. Cleveland Orchestra violin 1921-1923,
Seattle Symphony Concertmaster 1923-1925 127, Chicago Symphony
Assistant Concertmaster 1929-1937, Concertmaster 1937-1959 and
1932-1963, Principal Second violin 1959-1962 and 1963-1969.
also Chicago Symphony Personnel Manager 1961-1968)
Studied first with his Bohemian-born orchestral violinist father
John Weicher Sr. Then traveled to Prague with his father to study
at the Conservatory 1912-1916. With World War 1 expanding in Europe,
returned to Chicago to study with Herbert Butler (1883- ), a
student of Joachim.
1921-1923
Weiner, Richard
(Pennsylvania 1940- )
photograph by David I. Andersen, Cleveland Plain Dealer
percussion 1963-1968, Principal percussion 1968-2011 (hired into
the Cleveland Orchestra by George Szell directly from Indiana University)
Studied at Temple University - Philadelphia and Indiana University
graduating in 1963. Also a law degree from Cleveland State University,
1976.
First Assistant Principal cello 1977-present, cello 1974-1978, acting
Assistant Principal cello 1977-1978 (also the Rochester Philharmonic
while studying at the Eastman School. Also the Cleveland Orchestra
Piano Trio:
Joela Jones piano,
Peter Otto violin,
Richard Weiss cello)
Studied at the Eastman School of Music, where in his senior year,
he won the audition for the Cleveland Orchestra.
1974-present
Weiss, Sidney
(Illinois 1928- )
first violin (also Chicago Symphony Concertmaster 1967-1975,
Sidney Weiss and his pianist wife Jeanne Weiss toured as a
piano duo in 1970s and 1980s, l'Orchestre National de 1'Opera
de Monte Carlo Concertmaster about 1977-1979,
Los Angeles Philharmonic Co-Concertmaster 1979-1994)
Studied at the Chicago Musical College and later at
DePaul University - Chicago. Sidney Weiss was something
of a violin craftsman, and it is said that he played
a violin of his own construction.
photograph by Roadell Hickman of the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Principal harp, successor to Alice Chalifoux with whom she studied.
(also New Orleans Symphony)
Studied first with her parents Jack Wellbaum piccolo and personnel manager of
the Cincinnati Symphony and her mother, Linda Wellbaum who was Second harp
of the Cincinnati Symphony. Then studied privately with Alice Chalifoux and
with her at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Studied at at Roosevelt University - Chicago BMus 1952,
University of Hartford MMus about 1956. First African
American musician of the Cleveland
Orchestra when appointed by Szell in the 1957-1958 season.
1957-1996
Whittier, Fred
violin
1920-1921
Wightman, Florence A. (1906-1987)
Principal harp, Principal keyboard (also Metropolitan Opera Orchestra)
1929-1930
Williams, Caroline Harter
(Ohio 1878- )
viola
Studied violin with the Belgian teacher Martin Pierre Marsick (1847-1924) in Paris
1897-1898 and with French teacher Henri Marteau (1874-1934) in Geneva, Switzerland
1900-1902. Taught violin at Oberlin College - Ohio 1905-into 1910s.
1918-1919
Willoughby, Robert
Assistant Principal flute (also Oberlin Woodwind Quartet:
Robert Willoughby flute.
De Vere Moore oboe, George E. Wain 1903-1999
clarinet at Oberlin faculty 1929- ,
Martin Morris horn, Kenneth Moore bassoon)
Taught at the Conservatory of Music - Oberlin College - Ohio
beginning 1956.
1946-1955
Winder, Max Gilles
(France 1926-1991)
violin (also Colonne Orchestra 1945-about 1946,
orchestras in Nice and Cannes, Houston Symphony Associate
Concertmaster, Boston Symphony 1962-1991)
Studied at the Paris Conservatoire Prix in about 1945.
1948-1949
Witser, Steven (California 1960-2009)
a sudden heart attack age 48 - greatly missed
trombone (to Los Angeles Philharmonic as Principal trombone,
also Center City Brass Quintet with Anthony DiLorenzo trumpet,
Geoffrey Hardcastle trumpet,
Richard King
horn, Steven Witser trombone, Craig Knox tuba, also Music of the Baroque
- Chicago Principal trombone, Honolulu Symphony Principal trombone,
Santa Fe Opera Principal trombone, Phoenix Symphony Principal
trombone)
Studied at Hayward State University - California and the Eastman School of
Music BMus 1981. Grant Segall in the Cleveland Plain Dealer quoted
Steven Wiser as saying that he took up the trombone because his older
brother had already taken up the trumpet 90.
Well respected, Wister was also the Cleveland
Orchestra assistant personnel manager.
Assistant Principal 1989-2007
Wodicka, Herman
percussion
1918-1919
Wohlwender, Thomas R.
(Ohio 1936- )
Second trumpet (also soloist with the Cincinnati Civic Orchestra - a student
training orchestra, US Army Band Washington DC 1954-1957, Denver Symphony
under Saul Caston 1957-1958, New Orleans Symphony Principal trumpet 1958-1960)
Studied early part-time at the Cincinnati Conservatory, and then at
the Curtis Institute Class of 1955. After retirement from the Cleveland Orchestra,
went on to teaching and coaching in the Orlando, Florida area.
photo by Herbert Ascherman visit www.ascherman.com
cello (also Houston Symphony in 1950s, National Symphony - Washington DC
Phoenix Symphony Principal cello, Nashville Symphony Principal cello,
Cantilena Quartet: Eileen Davis first,
Leonard Samuels second,
Yarden Faden viola,
Harvey Wolfe cello, founder of the
Daystar Chamber Players, Tucson, Arizona)
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music BMus 1960.
Taught at Arizona State University.
1967-2004
Wolfe, Joseph
oboe, English horn (also Cleveland Orchestra English horn 1929-1930,
Minneapolis Symphony 1938-1940)
1928-1932 saw a series of English horn soloists with the Philadelphia
Orchestra. In December, 1928 in mid-season, Leopold Stokowski dismissed
Victor Leoncavallo as English horn, and hired
Marcel Dandois. Dandois's contract was not renewed the next
season, and
Joseph Wolfe was appointed, and remained one season.
Wolfe was succeeded by
Max Weinstein) for two seasons. In 1932-1933, Stokowski appointed
Robert Bloom as English horn.
1927-1928
Wolfson, Maurice
violin
1945-1985
Woodbury, Max Saint Clair
(Utah 1907-2002)
trumpet (to Indianapolis Symphony Principal trumpet 1968 and trumpet 1968-1975)
Woodbury taught at the Interlochen Music Camp - Michigan in the summers of
1939, 1940 and 1941, and at Indiana University 1939-1946.
1929-1934
Woods, Pamela Pecha
oboe 1978-1981, Assistant Principal oboe 1980-1990
1978-1990
Woodside, Beth
violin
1994-present
Woodward, Olive
viola
1920-1923, 1930-1933
Woolfrey, Robert
(Canada about 1982- )
Second clarinet (also fellow of the New World Symphony 2004-2007,
Memphis Symphony Principal clarinet 2007-2008,
also the IRIS Chamber Orchestra)
Studied at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music 2002 and at
Yale University MMus.
November 2008-present
Wright, R. Douglas (1968?- )
photo: Minnesota Orchestra, n.d.
Principal trombone (also Boston Pops and Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra - the touring
orchestra - while a NEC student. Rhode Island Philharmonic Principal trombone.
also Minnesota Orchestra Principal trombone. also
Empire Brass Quintet)
Studied at the New England Conservatory and Boston University MMus, where he also has
taught. He gave the world premiere in 2002 of the Kurt Schwertsik (1935- )
Trombone Concerto commissioned for Douglas Wright. In 2007, he performed
the Kalevi Aho (1949- ) Symphony No. 9 for Trombone and Orchestra,
playing both trombone and sackbut.
2004-2005
Returned to the Principal trombone chair of the Minnesota Orchestra.
Assistant Principal horn (also Columbus Philharmonic Principal
horn 1946-1948, Chicago Symphony 1948-1951,
Rochester Civic Orchestra 1954-1956 Third horn
Rochester Philharmonic 1956-1960, 1963-about 1969)
Studied at the University of Michigan. Taught at the
Eastman School of Music in 1950s and 1960s.
1951-1952
Yancich, Paul M. elder brother of Mark Yancich,
Principal timpani Atlanta Symphony, son of
Milan Yancich
(New York 1953- )
Principal timpani (also Atlanta Symphony timpani) .
Paul Yancich first studied the French horn with his famous father
Milan Yancich, and then changed to percussion at age
14. He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music BMus. He taught at
Georgia State University while in Atlanta, and now at the Cleveland
Institute of Music. In Cleveland, Paul Yancich preformed the world premiere
the James Oliverio Dynasty timpani concerto with his brother
Mark Yancich, Principal timpani of the Atlanta Symphony - see picture
at right with Paul and Mark Yancich in Cleveland.
1981-present
photo: Jeff Roffman
Yerke, Kenneth
violin
1968-1970
Yirberg, Charles J.
(Ohio 1893-1952) born of Czech emigrant parents
bass (also played in the orchestra of the Hotel Statler on Euclid Avenue, Cleveland)
1923-1937
Young, Karl
keyboard
piano 1929-1930
Yuan, Yu
(China 1966- )
violin (also the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia)
Studied at the Central Conservatory of China with Li Han and Zhenshan Wang.
Also studied at the University of the Arts - Philadelphia and at the Peabody Conservatory
- Baltimore Artists Diploma. Also studied at the Tanglewood Music Center.
double bass succeeding
Martin Flowerman (also with the Symphony in C - previously the Haddonfield
Symphony - New Jersey Principal double bass 2008-2011)
Studied at the Curtis Institute with Edgar Meyer and Harold Robinson.
Zadinsky had performed with the Cleveland Orchestra as a substitute during the
2011-2012 season. Also active in summer music festivals, including the
Aspen Music Festival and School - Colorado in the summers of 2007-2009.
February 2012-present
Zadrozny, Edward A.
(1952- )
trombone (also Naples Symphony - Florida Principal trombone, after the Cleveland Orchestra to
the Akron Symphony as Principal trombone)
Studied at Ohio State University BMus Ed, University of Illinois MMus. After relocating to
Akron, teaches at the University of Akron.
2003-2004, 2005-2006 as substitute member
Zaslav, Bernard M.
(New York 1926- )
viola (also New York freelance musician in 1950s, active in
string quartets throughout his career, including the
Kohon Quartet, Composers Quartet specializing in contemporary
music, Fine Arts Quartet based at the University of Wisconsin
1968-1980, Vermeer Quartet, and after retiring to Stanford, California,
of the Stanford String Quartet, and with his pianist wife Naomi -
also a Juilliard alumnus - of the Zaslav Duo.
Studied at the Juilliard School.
1947-1949
Zauder, David (Poland 1928- )
"mostly third" trumpet under Szell who changed assignments
according to the music.
(also US Army band West Point, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra
Principal trumpet on 1956 and 1957 tours)
Studied at Wayne State University (but not music) 1957. Holocaust survivor.
1958-1997
Zawisza, Leon
violin
1937-1938
Zeise, Karl W. (Massachusetts 1901-1992)
cello and an electronic cello. In 1928 and 1929, Stokowski
had Karl Zeise play an electronic cello with loudspeaker developed
by Léon Theremin (1896-1993), used unsuccessfully to reinforce bass
crescendi of the orchestra. (Cleveland Orchestra 1926-1927, Philadelphia
Orchestra 1922-1924, 1928-1932, Boston Symphony 1939-1970)
Studied with Alwin Schroeder, Boston Symphony Principal cello.
Tanglewood has since 1993 awarded a "Karl Zeise Memorial Cello
Award", now important.
1926-1927
Zehngut, Jeffrey
(Ohio 1981- )
violin (also San Diego Symphony Associate Principal Second violin
2005-2011, California Chamber Orchestra Principal Second violin,
Canton Symphony, also
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra 1997-1999)
Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music BMus in 2003, and also
graduate work at the Cleveland Institute of Music 2003-2005.
If you have any comments or questions about this Leopold Stokowski site,
please e-mail me (Larry Huffman) at e-mail address:
leopold.stokowski@gmail.com
1 A very useful source for the Cleveland Orchestra
is Rosenberg, Donald The Cleveland Orchestra Story,
'Second to None'. Gray & Company. 2000.
ISBN: 978-1-886228-24-5. Recommended, yet, in the latter sections of
the book, it has the hothouse flavor of inside politics, with a tone more
reminiscent of the opera house in Vienna or La Scala, rather than Cleveland,
with good guys and bad guys. Lorin Maazel receives a relentlessly
negative treatment, and the executives and the trustees of the
orchestra are seen, mostly, in an unfavorable light. These relentless
depictions (not too much nuance here) can sometimes become fatiguing,
but still, a useful book with careful research, and an interesting read.
2 page 395-396. Heiles, Anne Mischakoff.
America's Concertmasters. Harmonie Park Press.
Sterling Heights, MI. 2007. ISBN-13 978-0-89990-139-8
One of the few truly great books on Concertmasters and musicians of US orchestras.
A wealth of information, carefully researched and entertainingly written.
3 Lifschey, Marc. Playing Staccato on the
Oboe. The Double Reed. Volume 25 no 1 - 2002.
4 page 455. Colby, Frank Moore, Churchill,
Allen Leon. The New international Year Book
Volume 1919. Dodd, Mead and Company. New York, New York. 1919.
5The Cleveland Orchestra Fills a Great City with
Music AANA Journal. November 1, 2005.
6 page 227. The Cleveland Year
Book The Cleveland
Foundation. Cleveland, Ohio. May 1, 1922.
7 pages 157-159. Saleski, Gdal.
Famous Musicians of a Wandering Race
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8 Barkley, Roy R. Barkley and Odintz, Mark F.
The Portable Handbook of Texas Texas A&M
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11 Gough, Peter L. 'the Varied Carols I Hear':
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12 page 215. Smith, Catherine Parsons
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American Political Culture. M.E. Sharpe. 2001.
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16 Hough, James D. Frank Ruggieri.
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17 Junior Committee of the Cleveland Orchestra.
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February, 1995.
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46Biographical Nore:
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Division, Library of Congress. 2007.
47 page 226. Ewen, David.
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48 page 308. Horowitz, Joseph Horowitz.
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51 page 15.
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New York. March 7, 1921.
52 page 3. Concert Wins High Approval.
Daily Free Press. Carbondale, Illinois. December 9, 1919.
53 page 6. Bruno Steindel Noted Cellist.
Waterloo Evening Courier. Waterloo, Iowa. April 1, 1911.
54 page 58. Brilliant Music Festival.
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55 page 301. Shanet, Howard.
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56 Erdmann, Dr. Thomas R. An Annotated
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57 Hall, Mordaunt. Manhattan.
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58 Page 44. Civic Symphony Orchestra New
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59Clarinets in the Royal Concertgebouw,
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60 From Sherman Friedland's very interesting
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61 page 60-68. Cowan, Tom. Profile Interview
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62Philanthropists Back a Symphony
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63 page 187. Saleski, Gdal.
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64History: CIM Cleveland Institute
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65New York Trio
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66 Block, Adrienne Fried
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Oxford University Press. New York 1998. ISBN: 0-19-507408-4.
67 pages 157-169.
Heiles, Anne Mischakoff.
America's Concertmasters op. cit.
68 British Public records including
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and London Directories.
69 Carnovale, Norbert
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Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 2000. ISBN-13: 9780313260032.
70 pages 303-304. Sherman, John K. Sherman.
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op. cit.
74 Arnold, Claude Graveley, C.S.B.
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An Encyclopedia of Orchestral Recordings Made by the
Acoustical Process. Discographies,
Number 73, Greenwood Press, Westport Connecticut.
1997. ISBN 0-313-30099-2.
75 Gunlogson, Elizabeth Marie.
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March, 2001.
77 Hewett, Ivan.
Why All Those Insults Made Me Stronger
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August 18, 2005.
78 page 444. Oja, Carol J.
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79 page 33. Epley, Matthew.
Beach Combing
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80Pripadcheff Dies; Clarinettist at MET
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81David Glazer -- Clarinetist, 87.
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82 page 25. Symphony Contest Winner
Will Be Featured Tonight. Van Nuys News.
Van Nuys, California. June 10, 1960.
83 page 34. String Concert at LSC
December 3. Lowell Sun. Lowell, Massachusetts.
November 23, 1969.
84Berl Senofsky, 77, Violinist and Teacher.
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85Rafael Druian, 80, Violinist and Conductor.
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86 page 182. Grodner, Murray.
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87 page 163. Berger, Bruce.
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88 page 24. Lucas, Urith. Young Violist
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Albuquerque, New Mexico. May 31, 1972.
89 page 15. Live Broadcast
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90 Segall, Grant. Steven Witser, Former
Cleveland Orchestra acting Principal trombonist, dies at
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Cleveland, Ohio. April 30, 2009.
91 Gamble, Stephen J. and Lynch, William C.
page 29. Dennis Brain: A Life in Music.
University of North Texas Press. Denton, Texas.
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92 pages 37-38. Greer, Lowell.
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Volume 35 no 1 October 2004.
93 page 3. Hertz Acquires New Musicians.
Oakland Tribune. Oakland, California September 21, 1919.
94 page B-4. S.F. Symphony Season Will Start
Friday. Oakland Tribune. Oakland, California.
December 1, 1940.
95 Lewis, Zachary. Jahja Ling,
Cleveland violist Robert Vernon bring Paul Chihara's
'When Soft Voices Die' to life. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Cleveland, Ohio. May 1, 2009.
96Saint Louis Symphony
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97 Williams, Amédée Daryl.
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98Votapek, Philharmonic in Tuesday
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99 de Lorenzo, Leonardo.
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The Performer, The Music.
Texas Tech University Press. Lubbock, Texas. 1992.
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100 page 12. Duo-Pianists to Feature
Program Here Next Sunday. Sandusky Register
Star News. Sandusky, Ohio. October 11, 1951.
101 page 32. Operetta and Symphony
to be High Spots.
Oakland Tribune. Oakland, California April 10, 1934.
102 page 17. Festival will Present
Chamber Music Concert. New Castle News.
New Castle, Pennsylvania. July 21, 1965.
103 page 29. Joy of Chamber Music.
Howland Bandwagon.
Howland, Ohio. April 7, 1976.
104 page 4. Concert Guest Artists
From Pittsburgh Symphony.
Altoona Mirror. Altoona, Pennsylvania. January 30, 1961.
105 page 10. Samuel Thaviu Wins National
Violin Contest.
Spencer News Herald. Spencer, Iowa. July 9, 1931.
106 page 44. American Artist To Present
Concert Friday.
Port Arthur News. Port Arthur, Texas. November 14, 1937.
107 page 11. Orchestra Demands Voice in
Replacement of Szell.
Chronicle Telegram. Elyria, Ohio. September 5, 1970.
108 page 11. Segall, Grant.
Kurt Loebel, longtime Cleveland Orchestra violinist, dies at 87.
Cleveland Plain Dealer. Cleveland, Ohio. October 21, 2009.
109 page 3. Suite: Alice in Wonderland
. Ludington Daily News. Ludington, Michigan.
July 19, 1932.
110Form Quintette to Give Concerts.
New York Times. New York, New York. June 20, 1913.
111John Philip Sousa Band Roster.
John Philip Sousa: American Conductor, Composer & Patriot.
found at: http://www.dws.org/sousa/roster.htm
112 page 1. Cincinnati Musician From
Big Family Of Bassoonists. Beatrice Daily Sun.
Beatrice, Nebraska. February 25, 1948.
113Philip Reines.
New York Times. New York, New York. October 10,
1948.
114 Costa, Robyn Dixon A Biography
and Survey of the Musical Career of Grover Schiltz.
Ohio State University DMus thesis. 2009.
115 page 14. Young People's Orchestra will
Make its Debut. Oshkosh Daily Northwestern.
Oshkosh, Wisconsin. March 31, 1939.
116 Wills, Rick. Man Bows Out
after 50 Years as Conductor. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. June 13, 2004.
117 Rotstein, Gary. Charles F. Hois PSO
trumpeter for 36 years, Nearly all as the Principal.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. February 23, 2010.
118 page 19. Jack Benny Draws 20,000
At Phila.. Lebanon Daily News.
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124 Krankovich, Lynn.
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Andraud exercises
Cioffi in about 1945
Poor quality passport photo of Gaston Duhamel in 1923
Aaron Gorodner (Photographer unidentified, n.d. Courtesy of the
Cleveland Orchestra Archives)
