Hans, Arthur Berv is definitely the first player. Clearly, the second is one of his brothers, Jack or Harry, most likely Harry, though I don't have the documentation of who played what part in front of me at the moment. The video I just pulled up on Youtube actually had the date of December 1948, so maybe I saw a different one. I knew Arthur and Jack pretty well, but about 20 years after the performance was filmed and I never met Harry, so I can't be 100% sure on the identification of the second horn player.
Regards, Peter >message: 1 >date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:37:13 +0100 >from: "hans.pi...@t-online.de" <hans.pi...@t-online.de> >subject: [Hornlist] NBC horn player under Toscanini 1948 > >Hello friends, > >anybody out there who could identify or name the two horn players on the >March 1948 NBC Video of Wagner´s "Tannhaeuser" ouverture conducted by >Toscanini, please ? The two players are shown for over a minute at least >& again later. > >Han Pizka _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
