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Have Bassoon, Will Travel: Memoir wink an Foolhardy Life just the thing Music
by Martyr Zukerman
Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2024
24.95 / 9781553807131
Reviewed by Theo Dombrowski
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Venezuelan born flutist and conductor Orlando Cela is known for his engaging performances using imaginative programming of diverse repertoire. His eclectic recitals regularly include contemporary works using extended techniques and electronics, programmed alongside his own arrangements of rarely heard 19th century works or traditional folk music from China and beyond. In concerts, Mr. Cela regularly offers short lively introductions to selected works, offering audiences through lines for enhancing their experience.
As a conductor, he serves as the Music Director of the Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Lowell Chamber Orchestra, which he also founded. For nine years, he was the music director of the North Carolina Governor’s School; he has also guest conducted the Manchester Symphony Orchestra, the London Classical Soloists, the Marquette Symphony Orchestra, Dinosaur Annex, Sound Icon, and others. He created the Ningbo Symphony Orchestra during his year as visiting professor at Ningbo University, in China. Orlando has received the American Prize for conducting youth and community orchestras, the Vytautas Marijosius Prize for orchestral programming, and the Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for excellence in the performance of American music. His interpretation of Beethoven
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J. Walter Guetter, born into the revered Guetter and Moennig instrument-making families, was principal bassoon of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1922 until his untimely death in 1937, and thus part of that coterie of superlative instrumentalists who helped to establish the orchestra’s legendary status. Guetter’s teaching at Curtis was complemented by assistant principal Ferdinand del Negro, renowned as a contrabassoon player and for his impressive staccato, who played in the Philadelphia Orchestra for an extraordinary 40 years. In the years leading up to World War II, Simon Kovar, born in present-day Lithuania, brought his Russian conservatory training to Curtis. In St. Petersburg, Kovar had initially studied the violin with the renowned Leopold Auer, who also immigrated to the United States and taught at Curtis. Alexander Glazunov, famed Russian composer and director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, encouraged many of the violin students at the school to switch to a wind instrument so they could play with the military bands rather than be drafted into the infantry. Kovar switched to the bassoon but still incorporated the lessons Auer had imparted to him on the importance of long tones, tone quality, and the early study of difficult repertoire and later passed them down to