Orchestral Musicians favorites:

[alexwill]

The piccolo player would be Lois Schaefer...and your EH should be Laurence (Larry) Thorstenberg who is in his mid80s and still kicking (as far as i know!)

[k001k47]

Could be a fun game

You win, I guess. I must plead ignorance when it comes to this.

[Ace]

I would choose Doriot Anthony Dwyer for flute. I admired her playing (2nd flute) in the 1950's with the Los Angeles Philharmonic before she became principal in the Boston Symphony. For trumpet it would be Bud Herseth (Chicago Symphony) and Thomas Stevens (LA Phil). Your choice of trombonist Gordon Pulis is excellent. I heard him in the mid 1950's when the New York Philharmonic came to Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, conducted by the young Guido Cantelli. William Vachianno was principal trumpet in that concert. My choice for horn would be Sinclair Lott (also LA Phil 1950's). I haven't heard a better horn player since.

Ace

[Alex C]

Fantasy orchestra.

[eupher61]

I always enjoyed watching the Boston Pops of the 70s...the principal oboe in the Pops got a nickname, in my family, of "Mr. Eyebrows" for the movements he made while playing.

[Ace]

I always enjoyed watching the Boston Pops of the 70s...the principal oboe in the Pops got a nickname, in my family, of "Mr. Eyebrows" for the movements he made while playing.

Would this be the guy?

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Ace

[eupher61]

Nope. Pops. Bald and grey, almost a Sam Drucker look alike.

[hbcrandy]

Here is my vote:

Concertmaster: Norman Carroll
Principal Flute: William Kincaid
Principal Oboe: Marcel Tabuteau
Principal Clarinet: Harold Wright
Principal Bassoon: Bernard Garfield
Principal Horn: Phillip Meyers
Principal Trumpet: Gil Johnson
Principal Trombone: Glenn Dodson
Bass Trombone: Raymond Premru
Principal Tuba: John Fletcher

[Matt Walters]

My favorite orchestral musician would be any and all that put me on the sub list, then hand me all the "boring" gigs that let me get paid a lot of money to play one "can't miss" mf middle range note on the first number in the first half so I can be home before the rest of the concert is over.

[wtuba]

Me too, Matt, but I never found that guy. Too late now...

Will Traphagan

[ZNC Dandy]

Concertmaster: Glenn Dicterow
Principal Viola: Wolfram Christ
Principal Cello: Lorne Monroe
Principal Bass: Alois Posch
Principal Flute: Emmanuel Pahud/Randy Bowman/Carol Wincenc
Principal Oboe: Albrecht Mayer
Principal Clarinet: Stanley Drucker/Phillipe Berrod/Gervase de Peyer
Principal Bassoon: Judith LeClair
Contrabassoon: Whoever is playing on the Dallas Wind Symphony Maslanka disc. D A M N.
Principal Horn:(can't decide so...) Roland Berger/Peter Damm/Hans Pizka/Alessio Allegrini
Principal Trumpet:(can't decide so...) Phil Collins/Phil Smith/Veniamin Margolin/Reinhold Friedrich
Principal Trombone: Tony Chipburn
Second Trombone: David Finlayson
Bass Trombone: Pete Norton
Principal Tuba: Really can't decide...at all...not even going to try.
Principal Timpani: Eugene Espino

Just off the top of my head...some are subject to change...the trombonists are immovable.