If you want to hear an extreme version of sounding better on record
than live, listen to our recording of the Morton Gould viola
concerto. The soloist, who name I, and everyone else, has
forgotten, had dug up the piece that Morton had written back in
1940 or so and forgotten. Said violist played the first movement
wth piano somewhere and Morton either heard it or heard about it.
Somehow, Morton suggested him to record it with us as part of our
Gould recording project. Problem was, the guy couldn't QUITE play
the piece (he couldn't quite COUNT!). At the (pre-digital)
recording session, we did just the ending something like 20 times.
Our producer, Andy Kazdin of Columbia records, has since been
quoted as saying that editing the resulting product was his
greatest career accomplisment.
In 1954, I was in the MIT orchestra, playing the bass for the first
time, since there were many cellists and no bass players. Andy
Kazdin was the timpanist in the orchestra. Neither of us completed
our MIT careers. Andy has since worked with my brother on some Live
from Lincoln Center broadcasts.
Chuck
This is a man who worked with everyone from Glenn Gould on down!
Anyway, Kazdin told me that it was somewhat of an ethical delimma
for him - in his words "This guy will probably get jobs from this
recording."
But at least he didn't dress like this:
http://www.ahntrio.com/projects.html
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