200 years of Woodwinds featuring the Philadelphia Wind quintet

This Show features interview with Samual Barber, followed by a performance of Summer music

[@Twentythousandlps]

The music is at 16:40. Barber says earlier he is "going to play Les Noces," which happened in December of 1959, so the telecast was around then.

[@christopherczajasager9030]

How fitting...lovely to have this performance and treasurable interview. A DOCUMENT 😊privileged to have known Barber doubly so as I performed his wonderful music......😅

[@1BarliNugent1]

How intriguing to see the Philadelphians with Barber talking about this great piece. Would love to see more of the Philadelphia WQ posted.

[@ArsLonga1967]

This is just beautiful, I love Barber, a true gentleman. In my discovery of American classical music I think he's one of my favourites. Such class... I wish I could have met him... Elegance, humour and modesty. Thank you so much for posting. ...Shostakovich and Barber in the same room...Wow!

[@mschmidt62]

This is a fascinating historical document for all sorts of reasons! --The offhand way in which Barber mentions the "men" in Detroit for whom he wrote Summer Music is a reminder of how male-dominated the music world was even as recently as this video. You can read more about that in Laila Storch's book on Tabuteau. --It is evident from the conversation that one episode of this series features Tabuteau himself. I'm sure many would be interested in seeing this episode posted.

[@christopherczajasager9030]

What a special document......a treasure😅

[@davesurprenant5548]

Is that John de Lancie, asking Barber if he would consider writing a wind quintet with piano? God bless him...I wish more musicians had asked for music. Thanks to de Lancie, we have the Strauss Concerto.

[@barbaraheyman3594]

What a treat to see and hear Sam talk appreciatively to the members of the Philadelphia Wind Quintet! Too bad he didn't mention that he worked so closely with the New York Woodwind Quintet in writing this magnificent piece. But that was a well-kept secret.

[@estuardo6251]

I couldn't agree more. And thank you for your wonderful book!

[@DavidBennettThomas]

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[@bratschekind]

This is amazing! Thanks so much for posting this, Tom! I can't imagine where you found this. Films or interviews of Barber are so rare it's really a great opportunity to see this and get to hear such fine musicians play Summer Music when the piece was a mere infant. Thanks again!

[@Concertimento]

Truly amazing footage, as a composer this entire episode warms my heart and the playing is incredible, never seen Gigliotti play...

[@Sythetico]

Thank you for posting this...fabulous!!!

[@MultiHornman]

This piece moves my heart, magnificent music and musicianship.

[@klezmertom]

The Tabuteau episode was posted first on my channel.

[@kalebzhu9947]

Where can I find it?

[@elizabethleehey]

Thanks for posting.

[@mezzrow99]

Thank you so much for this.

[@ClarinetistsMusic]

Delightful!

[@h0ll0wm9n]

Thx for uploading this! There is another audio-only radio interview on a SB site (Facebook??) from the late 70s, a few years before SB's death. Any more in the series above, any composer, would be also bee cool.

[@joeenglert]

great historic document..thank you for bringing this for us...although , as a clarinet player...gigliotti is a great great guy but mediocre player..too bad it didn't have marcellus or wright. or mcclane on clarinet...oh well,,,it least it was not Drucker

[@mschmidt62]

I am also curious about how Sam Barber felt about having the Philadelphia players send copies of his music all over the world. Am I just imagining things or do I see a look in Sam Barber's face that says--wait, am I going to get performance royalties from these people? Maybe not the ones behind the iron curtain, but Copenhagen....

[@davesurprenant5548]

I wondered the same thing!

[@johnrandolph6121]

I don't think he would have cared....certainly if they were sending it to countries where it was not available for sell..... which I think would be the case with the USSR.

[@MultiHornman]

You must consider that they likely purchased multiple sets of the music and sent originals. Copy machines were not available in that day. It was a rather nice thing that international orchestral musicians did for their colleagues. The first time I played Shostakovitch's Festive Overture it was from a Russian set of parts given to a Boston Symphony Orchestra musician (well before available in the US) in Russia on tour.

[@joeenglert]

soooo re freshing to see and hear players that don't use that excessive, distracting, obnoxious moving around/dancing..like so many players are doing these days...they think they sound better with their constant gyrations and motions, but in reality they sound worse....almost like they think moving covers up their short comings as players...years ago, players used their energy on the music not on their showmanship

[@jk3horn]

What year is this?

[@ericleiter6179]

I was curious about that too