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By the way anyone know the highest paid musician in an orchestra? Not counting the conductors
Years ago my dad told me that it was the Triangle player. He said the reason was that they never brought them into rehearsals to save money & the expectation was they should hit that chime perfectly the first time out live in concert.
Years ago my dad told me that it was the Triangle player. He said the reason was that they never brought them into rehearsals to save money & the expectation was they should hit that chime perfectly the first time out live in concert.
Actually it is the tympani player …you need decades of experience to play them well …they are not only a drum but they are tuned via foot pedals as you play as they actually play musical notes .
You rarely if ever will see a younger tympani player in a professional orchestra ..they command the highest pay
I saw Petula Clark a few years ago. Performed for about an hour and twenty minutes, singing and telling stories. It was very impressive for being in her mid 80's. Unlike many older performers she never sat down to sing.
She isn't going to be the last one left but I've long been a fan.
Don't know if this is a reference to Toots Thielemans - many, many years ago he was initially denied entrance to the US musicians union because he played harmonica & the union didn't accept that it was anything more than a novelty or child's toy at first. But he ended up playing with all of the most preeminent jazz musicians of several eras & the union relented & it became a somewhat common staple in rock music later. Most have probably heard him from the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack.
Apropros to this thread he stopped gigging at 92yo. I saw him play at the Village Vanguard many ages ago.
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