Dedicated to the players of the orchestra
(last update - 2/07/10)
There are 401 names in our data base. If your name is not listed yet, click here.
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."
|
|
|
Poster courtesy of David Furholmen
|
March 1957
Poster for concert in Paris
|
|
February 7, 2010:
Thanks to David Furholmen for sending along the program
for a concert on Dec. 19, 1956 in Stuttgart.
Mel Ponzi has made available the list of people who have registered for
the reunion this August 19 - 22. The list will now be carried on this site and continually updated, and can be accessed
via the "Reunions" button above. The tentative reunion schedule is:
Thursday: Hospitality Room open all day, Grand Reception in the evening
Friday: rehearsal all day, evening banquet
Saturday: rehearsal if needed, concert in the evening
Sunday: informal gatherings, go home day.
Mel also relays the sad news that George Marcellus (bassoon '61 - '62)
passed away on January 30 after a tough battle with cancer, according to his brother Mark. An obituary can
be found here.
(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
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 the
University of Rochester Press, P O Box 41026,
Rochester, NY 14604-4126, or by calling 585-275-0419. Former 7ASO members 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.
|
|
|
|
|
