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(last update - 5/19/13)
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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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May 19, 2013:
Gloria Raphael, the daughter of Henry Huttenbach (flute '54 - '55) has sent along some updates to
Henry's bio
(CPE)
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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 Amazon
and other sellers.
Also of interest are several books that include stories about the orchestra, by
David Amram,
Michael Colgrass, and
John Sant'Ambrogio.
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