Jun 16
The Year 1989 – Part One I consider myself extremely fortunate to have been a member of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra during the years 1983 through 1998. From the prospective of the early twenty-first century, it seems that the tenure of Mariss Jansons as its music director was a golden age for the orchestra, …
Apr 05
My Musical Career|Part Thirty-Six The Year 1988 – Part Two Japan 1988 The big event of the year 1988 was the orchestra’s first ever tour to Japan in November and December. This would turn out to be the first of many visits the orchestra would make to Japan, and for me, …
Apr 04
My Musical Career|Part Thirty-Five The Year 1988 – Part One As mentioned in my previous post, Part Thirty-Four, 1987 was a seminal year in my personal musical development and that of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and its then-chief conductor, Mariss Jansons. What with the increase in touring, the change of recording labels and a higher …
Aug 04
My Musical Career | Part Thirty-Three The Year 1987 – Part Three As I mentioned in the last two blog posts, the year 1987 was an extremely busy year musically for me and for the orchestra that I had the honor to be a part of. Our 1987 US tour was the subject of the …
Jul 11
My Musical Career|Part Thirty-Two The Year 1987 – Part Three Our First USA Tour – Part One The year 1987 was indeed a pivotal year in so many ways, as I pointed out in the last two blog posts. So much happened that year, that in the recounting of events, I have …
May 26
My Musical Career | Part Thirty-One B 1987 – A Pivotal Year – Part Two In my last post, I related many of the events of the year 1987 which was indeed a pivotal year for both myself and the orchestra. The orchestra changed recording labels and increased their recording activity three-fold and made the …
Apr 24
My Musical Career|Part Thirty-One 1987|A Pivotal Year – Part One Looking back over my musical life, 1987 now seems to be on of the pivotal years for both the orchestra and myself. There were several such years – 1984 – when the orchestra began recording the Tchaikovsky series for Chandos, and we began …
Mar 11
My Musical Career | Part Thirty Short Tours with the Orchestra – 1986 While most of the tours that the orchestra undertook during my fifteen years with the ensemble were of two weeks or more duration, there were several shorter ones of shorter duration that were quite notable. I’ll devote this blog post to three …
Jan 26
My Musical Career|Part Twenty-Nine Touring with the Oslo Philharmonic Fall 1985 – Germany, Switzerland and Austria In my last post in this series, I wrote about my first “big” tour with the orchestra to the United Kingdom. During the course of that tour we visited England, Scotland and Wales. Needless to say, other than …
Nov 24
My Musical Career | Part Twenty-Eight Touring with the Oslo Philharmonic – U.K 1984 In my previous post, I talked about some of the highlights of my first seasons with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. My first tour with the orchestra was an overnight run-out to Gothenberg, Sweden. My first “big” tour with the …
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