Almost 20 years ago I was given a cassette tape of the ASO performing
the Mozart concerto for two pianos and orchestra. I had asked for it to
evaluate the hall acoustics at Robinson Center from the piano
perspective. I listened to it once, made a determination and then
promptly lost the thing. I have turned more than one house upside down
many times each trying to locate it. Such is the only ASO performance
extant (out of dozens) wherein we
prepped (in this case) two pianos for both rehearsals and performance -
an S&S D and a Baldwin SD10 - voicing, regulation, tuning et al.
A couple of days ago while roaming about the attic, I looked down and
staring straight at me, there it was, on the floor. Needless to say I
was elated to hear this once again. The recording was for archival
purposes only, and so the repro is not RCA. But was good. Now virtually no bass. The names
of the two pianist I do have - again lost somewhere.The late Bill
Vickery scheduled them. The duo pianist were called upon when the
scheduled pianist for that weekend had to cancel at the last minute. It
seems that they were friends of his from former
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