Great Chester interview

[MikeMason]

I stumbled on this and thought I'd share.Really good. http://www.wgbh.org/article?item_id=1836625" target="_blank

[BriceT]

That's really cool! Awesome find!

[jeopardymaster]

Wow. Now I'll be looking for a recording of the Reivers suite. FWIW, hearing the closing notes of the 1st movement of Mathis der Maler recalls a pearl - for me anyway. One of the truly great readings by Mr. Schmitz and BSO is a DGG recording of Mathis, conducted by Wm Steinberg, from the early '70s. Toward the midpoint of the 3rd movement, one single note gets through. It's in the hole between some big hammerblow brass chords and sounds absolutely glorious, brave and pure. The single flaw is that it's on the wrong count. To me it's like the beauty mark on Marilyn Monroe's face. Without it the performance would be inhuman. I wish I could sound that good, even once.

[jimgray]

yeah, thanks for posting this.
I very much enjoyed it.
Brought back memories of lessons I took with Chester years ago.
What a freak of nature that guy is!
I loved the part where they are interviewing the bass player who specifically dug Chester's Alexander sound so much that he went out and bought one for himself.

[bisontuba]

HI-
Chester and Ron Bishop both did Master Classes for Don's students two years ago at Eastman (which I attended). I asked each which recordings (on disc) they were most proud of and/or which were their favorites of what they had done with their respective orchestra(s)--here's what they said:

CHESTER:

John Williams-'The Reivers' & 'Jabba The Hut'

Tubby The Tuba--with Fiedler

Leinsdorf--Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet, Wagner Overtures

Steinberg--Planets, Hindemith-Mathis & Music for Brass & Strings

NOTE: Chester is on euphonium on Planets with John WIlliams & Ozawa & F TUBA on the Mars solo with Steinberg--rest of Steinberg recording is on tuba!

various Ozawa Mahler Symphonies and Tchaikovsky Symphonies/Ballet recordings

RON BISHOP:

Maazel-Prokofiev Sym. #5

Szell-Ring (esp. The Ride)

Szell-Mahler Sym. #6 & 9

Dohnanyi-Bruckner Symphonies

These should be in every tuba player's collection. Enjoy.

Regards-
mark
jonestuba@juno.com" target="_blank