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Existing in Germany from 1952 to 1962, this orchestra is still remembered.   Clarinetist Jerry Mattson expresses it aptly: "I don't normally live in the past, but I have yet to come across anyone with a comparable experience to hark back to.  Those were strange and wonderful years."


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Photo courtesy of David Furholmen
  Sant'Ambrogio
Sant'Ambrogio"

From Overseas Weekly
Oct. 20, 1957

John Sant'Ambrogio
March 7, 2010:
the above photo, like the one two weeks ago, is from an Overseas Weekly article that can now be seen on the Concerts Page.
Mel Ponzi reports that five more people have registered for the August reunion.   (CPE)
7ASO People
in the News

(Updated 8/09/09
Lewis Kaplan)
John Canarina
Donald Draganski
Harris Goldman
David Irving
Lewis Kaplan
Jack Monchecourt
Charles Rosen
Myron Rosenblum
Lost Sheep List
(Updated 7/26/09)
remove Fred Dutton,
Reginald Hache,
and Mickey Lockner
In Memoriam
(Updated 2/21/10)
E. Ray Scott
Books About the Orchestra or Orchestra Members:
Uncle Sam's Orchestra: Memories of the Seventh Army Symphony, by John Canarina (bass and conductor in 1959-60), 1998.  50 b/w illus., musical examples, 224 pages, 6 x 9, $65. Available via Print on Demand from Boydell & Brewer, 668 Mount Hope Avenue Rochester, NY 14620-2731, 585-275-0419. Former 7ASO members should be able to get a 25 per cent discount.
Kenneth Schermerhorn: He Will Always Be the Music, by Martha Rivers Ingram with D. B. Kellogg, 2006. 65 photos, 391 pages; $24.99. (Ken played trumpet and conducted in 1953-55). Can be ordered online from the Schermerhorn Symphony Center Store, One Symphony Place, Nashville, TN 37201. The store also offers this unusual item.
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