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ROBERT BLOOM oboe in his own edition of Handel OBOE Sonata in C Minor Opus I, No.8 w Earl Wild Piano complete 1&2 RCA Victor Red Seal ?– 12-0380Sonata In C MinorA1 Adagio A2 Allegro B1 Adagio B2 Allegro Composed By – Georg Friedrich HändelOboe – Robert BloomPiano – Earl WildNotesOrig Issue 12" 78 rpm record Condition: EXCELLENT minus, unworn but rubs, plays E EXCEPTIONALLY QUIET rare ticksA GREAT COPYRobert Bloom (May 3, 1908 – February 13, 1994) was an oboist with an orchestral and solo career, a composer and arranger contributing to the oboe repertory, and a teacher of several successful oboists.[1] Bloom is considered seminal in the development of an American school of oboe playing.[2]At the Curtis Institute of Music Bloom was a pupil of Marcel Tabuteau for three years.[2] In the 1930s he played English horn in the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski and first oboe in the Rochester Philharmonic under José Iturbi.[2] He was the principal oboe in Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra from 1937 to 1943.[3] Bloom plays on recordings by the Columbia Symphony and the RCA Symphony.[2]In 1946 Bloom was one of the founding members of the Bach Aria Group, with which he played until 1980.[1][2] Recordings by the Bach Aria Group featuring Bloom started appearing from the late 1940s.[4] Bloom transcribed and elaborated 18th-century masterworks for the oboe.[5] His own compositions include a Sonatina for oboe and piano.[1]Bloom was a professor at Yale and Juilliard.[1] His pupils include William Bennett,[6] Bill Douglas,[7] Tim Hurtz,[8] Richard Killmer,[9] Bert Lucarelli,[10] Ray Still,[10][11] Allan Vogel,[10] Stephen Taylor, and Richard Woodhams,[2] In the spring of 1988, friends, colleagues, and former pupils gathered in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York for an 80th-birthday tribute.[2]A few years after Bloom's death in 1994,[12] his widow, Sara Lambert Bloom, published The Robert Bloom Collection, scores and parts to his 21 editions of 18th-century masterworks, 10 transcriptions, and 10 compositions.[13] The Art of Robert Bloom, a 7-CD set of live performances of concertos, chamber music, and Bach arias performed by Bloom over his 60-year career was released in 2001 on Boston Records label.[14]Bloom's daughter, Kath Bloom is a singer-songwriter and music therapist based in Litchfield, CT.[15] The following is an article by Norman B. Schwartz © 2004 THE PAVAROTTI OF THE OBOE Robert Bloom (1908-1994) Ten years have passed since Robert Bloom died in 1994. The sound goes on. Robert Bloom, son of a Pittsburgh cantor, was one of the first generation of wind-players to study free-of-charge at the Curtis Institute with the legendary Marcel Tabuteau, first oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. With the encouragement of that great orchestral colorist Leopold Stokowski, Tabuteau was responsible for changing the sound of the instrument from a bucolic double-reed often associated with shepherds and bag-pipers to one of the most vibrant and expressive singing instruments of the modern symphony orchestra. So all pervasive was Tabuteau's influence that at one time in musical history almost every principal oboe chair in American symphony orchestras was held by one of his pupils. From coast-to-coast --- Ralph Gomberg in Boston, brother Harold Gomberg in New York, John DeLancie in Philadelphia, John Mack in Cleveland, Bert Gassman in Los Angeles and Marc Lifschey in San Francisco. What has come to be called the American sound of the oboe was in fact the Tabuteau sound, a Frenchman's present to his new country. To many, Robert Bloom was the most brilliant recipient of that gift. The Pavarotti of the oboe. Bloom started his orchestral career playing second oboe and then English horn with the Philadelphia Orchestra (1930-36); his first job as principal was with Jose Iturbi in the Spanish maestro's pre-MGM days as conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic. In 1938 Bloom was invited to be the first oboe in the orchestra the National Broadcasting Company collected for Arturo Toscanini. Bloom left the NBC Symphony after six years. (The story goes that knowing how much Toscanini admired his playing --- they were like father and son --- Bloom asked the management for a raise and was refused.) Undaunted and supremely self-assured, Bloom went on to become one of the highest paid free-lance wind players in the United States: most in demand in that select group of session musicians in New York City who recorded with orchestras under such all purpose names as the RCA Victor Symphony, and the Columbia Symphony. Enormously confident of his ability to sight-read, Bloom prided himself in his ability to walk into any studio in town, look at his part, and instantly play for anyone from Stravinsky to Jackie Gleason. By temperament Bloom was the quintessential soloist. Robust of sound as well as personality, he was beloved by many conductors, particularly by his first, Stokowski, for whom he continued to play with the recording ensemble known as "Stokowski and his Orchestra." Stokowski once wrote: "Dear Mr. Bloom, You played so wonderfully in the Bach, I feel I must write to tell you what deep musical satisfaction I had from listening to your solos, and to making music with you." There were others, however, the great Bruno Walter for one, who were not so enamored and often disagreed with the oboist's extraverted and uninhibited interpretations. Most telling was a remark Walter made on the famous recording of the rehearsal of the Mozart Linz Symphony with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Walter stopped the orchestra to admonish: "Please Mr. Bloom, you are only playing a harmony part." One can choose to interpret that remark in many ways. To those who knew and loved Bloom's playing, it was yet another instance of a man so in love with the music that he was sometimes carried away in his desire to be expressive. To others it was proof that this great artist, larger than life, was simply too big to fit in with any conventional orchestral ensemble. Wherever he played, Bloom was always an orchestral star with a star's temperament. There was something in his character which would not permit him to cringe in the presence of the omni-powerful conductor. He was fortunate that the very first leaders for whom he played, Stokowski and Toscanini, encouraged the young artist to be himself, to be in a word, spontaneous. Bloom loved to imitate Toscanini pleading with the orchestra: "PUT something! DO something bad, but do SOMEthing." That something, the unique fearless expressiveness unmistakably Bloom delighted some, as it sometimes offended others. "And the oboe it is clearly understoodIs an ill wind that no one blows good."Danny Kaye sang this in the 1947 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The year before the philanthropist and scholar William Scheide founded the Bach Aria Group in New York City. Had the comedian heard Bloom play, he might have changed his mind. For it was in that ensemble that Bloom truly came into his own as one of the great soloists of his time. Bloom joined the Bach Aria Group in 1946 and remained with that ensemble as one of its principal members until his retirement. When Scheide came up with the then revolutionary idea of creating a musical ensemble devoted solely to playing the cantata music of Bach, there were few singers who specialized in the baroque repertoire, to say nothing of instrumental soloists. Scheide had the genius to interest the best free-lance recording players --- Bloom, Julius Baker and Bernard Greenhouse --- in this then difficult and obscure music. To join them he found such unlikely candidates as the Metropolitan Opera tenor, successor to Caruso, Jan Peerce. Peerce (né Jacob Pincus Perelmuth), a great cantor in his own right, and Bloom the son of another, had both grown up listening to liturgical (if hardly Lutheran) music; both men understood that the arias from these great vocal works required a resonant cantabile style hitherto not associated with Bach. Some critics of the day objected strongly, claiming that the vocal works of the Leipzig Kapellmeister were not operas, but those of us who were there at the legendary Town Hall concerts thrilled to the ringing and vibrant sound that these two great performers and their soulful collaborators from the world of opera produced. There was something distinctly both bright and dark about Bloom's sound, someone once called it "chocolately," so rich you could taste it. Many attempts have been made to analyze it technically. Was it his unique way of shaping of the reed, or the way he held the reed in the mouth so that the wood might vibrate more fully, or was it his extraordinary diaphragm control which allowed for the most elaborate of legato solos to appear as if they were accomplished with a single breath --- all of this or none of it? There is no doubt that Bloom was a master of the instrument, but beyond that there was always something else, not predicated on sheer virtuosity which made him the great artist he was. To my mind, it was his musical presence, the command of the stage, the spontaneity, his honesty of impulse, even the risk-taking that we associated with the great opera singers whose magnetic personalities draw our eyes (and ears) to them alone. In the late 1950's Bloom whose recording schedule had been so intense that he previously had little time to teach, began taking on students. As was the case with his teacher, the great Tabuteau, it can now be said of Bloom that there is hardly an orchestra in America that has not employed or is not presently employing one of his pupils. The list is endless but it includes among its many principals Ray Still of Chicago, David Weiss and Alan Vogel in Los Angeles, Steven Taylor of the Orpheus and the Lincoln Center Chamber Society in New York, and William Bennett in San Francisco. Bloom died in 1994. A few years later he was honored by becoming the first American oboist to be listed in Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. His widow, Sara Lambert Bloom, oboist and teacher in her own right, has painstakingly collected and published a forty-two volume set of her husband's editions of eighteenth-century solo and chamber music complete with her husband's own comments and articulations. Perhaps the greatest tribute ever paid his artistry is the enduring work of the many men and women in orchestras all over the world who followed his example and continue to carry on that unmistakable singing vibrant sound which began with Tabuteau and which resounds today in the many recordings we have now of Bloom and his students. One of his colleagues, Wayne Rapier, has said it best and with simple eloquence: Robert Bloom was "one of our greatest singers . . . who happened to play the oboe." --- NORMAN B. SCHWARTZ © 2004 More Great Records on sale right now: CLICK ON THIS LINK TO SEE MORE GREAT RECORDS CLICK ON THIS LINK TO SEE ALL ITEMS - VINTAGE BOOKS, VICTROLA and TURNTABLE ITEMS, CDs, Books and DVDs http://shop.ebay.com/carsten_sf/m.html ==== A Quick NOTE ON GRADING AND SHIPPING: As you can see from my feedback, I try hard to earn your POSITIVE FEEDBACK and FIVE STAR RATINGS. 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Release Title: Handel Oboe Sonata in C Minor
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