Cleveland Symphonic Winds--Fennell Era LPs, c. 1970s

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:58 am

Anyone care to enlighten me on how the Cleveland Symphonic Winds worked back in the 1970s when Fredrick Fennell was doing LPs with them for Telarc?

I've heard that Cleveland Symphonic Winds was a one-on-a-part kind of 'wind orchestra' made up (at least primarily) of the woodwind, brass, and percussion players of the Cleveland Orchestra at the time. Is this correct?

Ron Bishop would have been the Cleveland Orchestra tubist at the time...did he play in the Cleveland Symphonic Winds with Fennell?

Thanks!

bwtuba · Post by **bwtuba** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:13 pm

Yes, R.B. played those sessions. The other tubist was I think John Olah.

ai698 · Post by **ai698** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:54 pm

bwtuba wrote:Yes, R.B. played those sessions. The other tubist was I think John Olah.

Yep, it was John that played it. They also played on Cleveland doing Rites with Maazel conducting about the same time period.

BTW, I'm a former student of John. When I was an undergrad at U 0f New Mexico, John was the tuba grad. I just got both of the Cleveland Winds albums and I asked John if he knew anybody on it, he said "yeah, me".