On Friday, October 1, 2010 at 4:19:21 PM UTC-4, ansermetniac wrote:
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> NY Phil 1948-49
> Actually when Dinny joined in 50 to replace Taylor who became
> Principal in Cleveland, they were even better
> Not too many changes until Chambers retired in 1969
> 1) 1950 Dinny replaces Taylor
> 2) 1957 Namen and Dinny switch chairs
> 3) 1960 Fisher dies and Dinny moves up to third and John Carabella
> joins as second
> 4) 1961 Ricci retires after almost 50 years and is replaced by A.
> Robert Johnson. Before 1946 , Ricci was third
> 5) 1968 Chambers and Singer switch chairs
> 6) 1969 Chambers retires and is replaced by L. William Kupyer. Johnson
> quits and is replaced by John Cerminaro who does not have to audition
>
> In 1970 The board told Kuyper they are switching his and Cerminaro's
> contract and if he doesn't like it, leave. Singer switches to a Paxman
> high F horn and the Chambesr sound is over. In 1975 Singer retires and
> is replaced by Cerminaro who in the meantime has changed his style to
> sound like Mason Jones with a vibrato. Dinny and Carabella have had
> enough and Cerminaro is fired in 1979. Phil Myers is hired instead of
> Myron Bloom putting the final nail in the coffin of the Chambers sound
> and the NY brass sound of 1946-68 when coupled with the hiring of Phil
> Smith as Principal Trumpet
> Cerminaro was Chambers's protege. he joined the NY Phil without an
> audition and was pushed up to Principal. His betrayal of his master to
> play an easier style of playing is the main reason why Chambers,once
> the most influential horn player in America is all but a forgotten man
> 20 years after his death
>
> BTW , Cerminaro lost the Seattle audition but his buddy Gerry
> Schwarz(Co-Principal trumpet during Cerminaro's tenure in NY) demanded
> that he get the job. He is not well liked in Seattle and had his horn
> damaged anonymously
> Abbedd