Re: [ARSCLIST] Which U.S. Orchestra Recorded First?

[Peter Hirsch <punto@xxxxxxxx>]

Earlier, Steve Smolian said:

<George,  That was one of the reasons I liked this picture.  
Incidentally, the horn player is Bruno Jaenicke who remained first when 
the NY Philharmonic and the <NY Symphony merged and into the late '30s, 
perhaps longer.  He's the soloist on the Brunswick Toscanini "Midsummer 
Night's Dream" Nocturne.  Labatte is the <oboist (who made a solo disc 
for U.S. Pathe), Simon Barere the clarinetist, Guidi the first fiddle 
(he also recorded for Gennett), etc.

Steve,

Bruno Jaenicke was one of the all-time great horn players and he was 
also featured on Mengelberg's Heldenleben, but there were two small 
details that I did want to correct in your posting (I can't wait to read 
the actual article - I have long treasured my fat Columbia NYPO Stransky 
78s from the 19-teens and have always wondered what might predate them) 
is that the oboist was Bruno Labate (quite a source for colorful 
anecdotes) and and the flutist in the Philharmonic was Georges Barrere 
(Simon Barere was noted both for his pianism and the unfortunate 
circumstances of his demise). I know that this is somewhat off-topic for 
this list, but the hornplayer's list that I belong to probably wouldn't 
care about such ancient history, so I am posting it here.

Nits picked and I'm done,

Peter Hirsch

Quote from Time Magazine Archives:

Nov. 23, 1931
Adenoids and head colds affect few people so unpleasantly as they do 
those who blow on wind instruments. At a Philharmonic concert in 
Manhattan last week German Bruno Jaenicke, reputed the world's greatest 
French horn player, huffed, puffed & snuffed valiantly through the first 
two movements of the Concerto which Richard Strauss wrote for his 
horn-playing father. Then, exhausted, Horn-Player Jaenicke left the 
stage. Conductor Erich Kleiber strode after him, but no amount of 
persuasion would return Bruno Jaenicke to his snuffling misery. An 
unprecedented announcement was made: the Philharmonic was unable to 
finish a number it had started.