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contrabassconversations · 7 years ago

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396: Orin O'Brien on Leonard Bernstein, Fred Zimmerman, and life in the New York Philharmonic

It is an honor and a pleasure to welcome Orin O'Brien to the show! I've been hoping to have Orin as a guest for years, and I want to give a big shout-out to Chris Mathers for connecting the two of us!

We chat about numerous shared acquaintances, including Greg Sarchet, Miloslov Gajdos, David Grossman, Ira Gold, Ed Barker, Hal Robinson, Max Dimoff, Michael Hovnanian, Douglas Mapp, and Ron Wasserman.

More About Orin

New York Philharmonic bassist Orin O’Brien was born in Hollywood to parents in the film industry, George O’Brien and Marguerite Churchill, and received her early musical training in Los Angeles, where she studied with Milton Kestenbaum and Herman Reinshagen. She then studied in New York with Frederick Zimmermann and graduated from The Juilliard School, and is an alumna of the Music Academy of the West, now a partner in the New York Philharmonic Global Academy.

She has been a member of the New York Philharmonic since 1966, where she has played with the world’s leading conductors. She has participated in numerous chamber music festivals, including Marlboro, and in first performances of the Gunther Schuller Quartet for Four Double Basses.

She co-chaired the double bass department of The Juilliard School for ten years, and currently serves on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and Mannes College of Music. Her most recent chamber music performances were the quintets of Schubert and Dvorak with the Guarneri String Quartet.

We dig into a wealth of topics, including:

how Orin came to study with Fred Zimmerman

how to play specific excerpts

the switch from gut strings to steel strings and the premiere of the Gunther Schuller Quartet (these two events are interlocking)

how Orin felt about being the first woman in the NY Phil (the answer will surprise you!)

how to really be a good principal player

what trips people up in auditions

New York in the 50s

Herman Reinshagen and the bass lineage of the 20th century the great premieres throughout her career

how special Riccardo Muti is as a conductor, and what makes him special - one of the living greats

what was special about the musicianship of Carlos Kleiber

how a great conductor can use imagery to inspire the orchestra

Links to Check Out:

Double Bass Notebook - amazing book by Orin O'Brien

Orin's New York Philharmonic page

the Manhattan School of Music double bass program

Orin O'Brien Tribute from ISB 2013 (arranged and conducted by Inez Wyrick and narrated by Kristin Korb)

Felix Weingartner - On the performance of Beethoven’s Symphonies (PDF)

Women in Orchestras panel discussion with Orin - Brooklyn Museum

the Miloslav Gajdos video Orin references

Corresponding with Carlos: A Biography of Carlos Kleiber

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allbestnet · 8 years ago

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Best Books of the 20th Century (322 books)

Lord of the Rings [trilogy] by J. R. R. Tolkien

Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Peter and the Wolf by Sergey Prokofiev

Call of the Wild by Jack London

Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

Ulysses by James Joyce

Peanuts by Charles M. Shultz

Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

White Fang by Jack London

Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Dubliners by James Joyce

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Trial by Franz Kafka

Sea Wolf by Jack London

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Stranger by Albert Camus

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

Plague by Albert Camus

Rebecca by Dame Daphne Du Maurier

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Pearl by John Steinbeck

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Castle by Franz Kafka

Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Virginian by Owen Wister

Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham

My Ántonia by Willa Cather

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Victory by Joseph Conrad

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Garfield by Jim Davis

Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery

Tale of Benjamin Bunny by Beatrix Potter

Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

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Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence

Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne

Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

Passage to India by E. M. Forster

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sanctuary by William Faulkner

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Red Pony by John Steinbeck

Light in August by William Faulkner

Lost Horizon by James Hilton

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis

Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

Ambassadors by Henry James

Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers

O Pioneers by Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe

Room With a View by E. M. Forster

Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Howards End by E. M. Forster

Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling

Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Curious George by H. A. Rey

Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Good-bye Mr. Chips by James Hilton

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Dune by Frank Herbert

Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Horse and his Boy by C. S. Lewis

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Last Battle by C. S. Lewis

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Wings of the Dove by Henry James

Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien

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Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Roots by Alex Haley

Native Son by Richard Wright

Stuart Little by E. B. White

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Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

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Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry

Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

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Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

Rainmaker by John Grisham

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Borrowers by Mary Norton

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Beloved by Toni Morrison

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Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

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King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

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Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary

Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

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Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

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Summer of the Swans by Betsy Cromer Byars

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Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

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Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema

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Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

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Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

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Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown

Holes by Louis Sachar

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Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White

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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck

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Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Brethren by John Grisham

Testament by John Grisham

Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary

Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy

Street Lawyer by John Grisham

Left Behind by Tim F. Lahaye

Patriot Games by Tom Clancy

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Timeline by Michael Crichton

Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel

Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Prince Caspian the Return to Narnia by C. S. Lewis

Chosen by Chaim Potok

While My Pretty One Sleeps by Mary Higgins Clark

Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans

Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy

Lost World by Michael Crichton

Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Loves Music, Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Last Precinct by Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Southern Cross by Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

Cause of Death by Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Valley of Horses by Jean Auel

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy

Death in the Family by James Agee

Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Tribulation Force by Tim F. Lahaye

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

Point of Origin by Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

Black Notice by Patricia Daniels Cornwell

I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven

"O" Is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton

Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

Paradise by Toni Morrison

At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon

Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

"N" Is for Noose by Sue Grafton

Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor

#books

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