Adolph Herseth Interview and Trumpet Demonstration (1951), Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Broadcast date: September 23, 1951. From a radio program series by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which seem to have been done for PR purposes. Whatever the reason they were interesting!
The BEST trumpet player ever in the XX century
And even a little bit into the XXI century.
WMAQ was a Chicago 50.000 watt "clear channel" station at 670 kHz. At the time of this interview, their studio would have been in the Merchandise Mart building. I found it amusing that the winner of the tickets was In Oak Park. Herseth himself lived in Oak Park. And so did my family. His son Steve was one year ahead of me in high school, and we were both in the high school orchestra's horn section. We would see Mr. Herseth around town from time to time. In later years Steve would joke that his father, through his entire career, had never advanced. That is, of course, because he became principal trumpet of the CSO at about the age of 27 years and held the position for FIFTY THREE years. So, technically, he never advanced. What does "WMAQ" stand for, if anything? At one time their slogan was "We Must Ask Questions."
Thanks for that great background!
Amazing -He had such a beautiful sound
WOW!
I love this. Thank you.
You will notice, contrary to currently performance practice, Herseth used a slight vibrato.
Slight? Quite a bit of vibrato, as and when necessary! Love it.
Some of the "vibrato" sounds like tape flutter to me. It may have been recorded on an Ampex AG600 machine which sometimes get fluttery.
What an amazing player and section leader!!! The Chicago brass section of the 60's is unmatched.
Besides the likelihood of tape flutter, he would use vibrato when musically appropriate, and not when it wasn't. To hear how he performed it more accurately, this RUclips has a sequence of Herseth's introduction in all SEVEN of the times the Chicago Symphony Orchestra recorded the piece (big difference in what conductors wanted, as you will hear). ruclips.net/video/tC27IRYrKRk/видео.html
Huh, Goldenberg on D trumpet
A CRACK IN THE DEBUSSY FETES?? There's hope for me yet.
I think he might have done that purposely to remind us that, yes, he is human.
Good thing Reiner didn't hear that! Might have been a much shorter career for Bud. (Hah. S/)
@@gregorygerner3471 Not likely. Herseth himself told about how Reiner would put individual players through the meat grinder during rehearsals. Sort of "testing" them. When Reiner got around to Herseth, it was a piece with a notable trumpet solo. I forget the name of the piece. But the lead up is the flutes doing a lot of fluttering more and more quietly and then the trumpet comes in, "Dah Da Dah Deeeeeee". With the first three notes as C and the last an octave jump to high C. He said Reiner had him do it 6 or 7 times and he played it fine each time. He then said that Reiner smirked at him and said, "Can we do that one more time?". Herseth says he looked at his own watch and said, "I'm here until 12:30."