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(last update - 7/25/10)
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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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July 25, 2010:
Since June 20th five more people have registered for the reunion on August 19-22,
and there have been three cancellations.
There will be no public concert, but chamber groups will get together, and may give a concert on Saturday for attendees, friends,
and family members.
(CPE)
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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
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Lost Sheep List
(Updated 6/06/10)
remove Frank Maguire,
Paul Moore
Joseph Rabich
Antonios Toullis
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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). Available online from the Schermerhorn Symphony Center Store,
One Symphony Place, Nashville, TN 37201. The store also offers this unusual item.
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