My father was a cellist in the CSO. He took me at age 11 to the rehearsal for this concert after which he introduced me to Maestro Hindemith. He had a very stern presence, but I remember a feeling of warmth from him. Of course, I didn’t really appreciate the significance of meeting him at the time.

@gregmonks

Жыл бұрын

Hindemith LOVED teaching, and his students loved him back. He was a very nice guy.

@borkair6581

Жыл бұрын

stern = 'focussed'

I can never understand why Hindemith is so neglected. His music breaks cover every now and again but never enough. My opinion , one of the greatest composers ever . This piece is fantastic. Many thanks wonderful to see the man himself in action. I have collected almost every recording of his work I could lay my hands on , and have never been disappointed. Brilliant. My bias only allowed for Hindemith's own work . Sorry.

@gregmonks9708

Жыл бұрын

His music is neglected because a new academic nits took exception to his revamping one piece of music using a musical approach that, in their view, wrecked it.

@daviddunne4737

Жыл бұрын

@@gregmonks9708 Thank you for letting me into something I was unaware of to date . I worked in Dublin Airport for many years and at one stage one of our youth orchestras was going on tour to Germany. Naturally I did ask ' will be playing any Hindemith ' . I'm affraid I got back many blank looks , only one young lady said she had heard of Hindemith. I was dissapointed. Regards. I will still fly the flag for him. SLAN and God bless from Dublin .

@gregmonks9708

Жыл бұрын

@@daviddunne4737 Back when Hindemith imposed his composing style on that piece of music, universities everywhere were agog with pretentious bloviating and gum-flapping on the subject. Being a university prof himself, Hindemith was part of that community. If you want to witness gossip, hang around the university crowd or join a symphony orchestra. You'll see more drama, infighting, pettiness, mean-spiritedness, and back-stabbing than you'll ever see on a television soap-opera. This is far from an exaggeration. A few small examples: in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, the Saskatoon Symphony was divided two ways: over loyalty to the conductor and loyalty to the principle violist, his former girlfriend, who split on very poor terms; and over the two composers' groups, formerly one composers' group, now split into two factions of around 50 members each. The reasons behind the two splits are so petty that they're not worth mentioning. The world of classical musicians is a small one, and I could go on for many pages about similar drama in organisations from China and Japan to the UK and Europe. It's a bit like reading biographies on Beethoven and Wagner: how could such small, mean, petty little trolls write such great music? And so it goes. 😁

@daviddunne4737

Жыл бұрын

@@gregmonks9708 Excellent. Much obliged for the information. I have a simple approach, I just listen and like. Regards once more.

@gregmonks9708

Жыл бұрын

@@daviddunne4737 I like to read about the lives of the composers while keeping track of their musical output at the same time. It's a good way to learn that music is a trade, not an art, and that these people are not to be set up on pedestals.

Hindemith died 38 weeks after this performance, in Frankfurt, aged 68, from pancreatitis. We are very fortunate to have these filmed performances; their significance would hardly have been realized on the day of recording.

@gregmonks

Жыл бұрын

HIs book A Composer's World was published around this time. I still have my dog-eared old copy. I've always treasured it, next to Stravinsky's Poetics Of Music.

@imitatio

Ай бұрын

And Hindemith - I am sure - was very blessed to carry these memories with him, this side of Glory.

I played this piece at The Curtis Institute in 1974. It was our first concert of the year, with William Steinberg conducting. It was then that I truly realized how special a place Curtis is.

Hindemith was primarily a composer who fully understood and exploited the tonal capabilities of each orchestral instrument. The instrumentation of his pieces was imaginative; no one had thought of focusing solely on brass and strings before him. This recording once again highlights his inclination towards surprising twists in his compositions. There is never a dull or uninteresting moment. One listens attentively, eagerly anticipating what is to come. It's the kind of concert attention one desires.

The CSO performed this same program on April 1, 1963 at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee. I met and spoke with Hindemith after the concert and got his autograph on his tuba sonata and also the tuba part for his Symphony for Band. In my college days we got a CSO ten concert season ticket.

@bordaz1

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dan. How has this orchestra changed since then, in your opinion? I grew up with them in the 90s-00s...I always thought they could play better when Barenboim was their director

@MrTheNeez

3 жыл бұрын

@@bordaz1In my opinion all orchestras have changed since the sixties. There are so many transcendent orchestras now. But so few have the differing personalities they once had. The "Big Five, at that time were very distinguishable. For me the 60's CSO was above reproach just like the 60's Green Bay Packers.

@bordaz1

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrTheNeez thanks, I understand what you’re saying. Just a little football quip: Lombardi’s Packers were MOSTLY above reproach, except in this year of filming when the title went to one of their local rivals :)

Some of the best footage and playing from the classic CSO Brass section. Herseth's execution and sound quality is otherworldly. The gold standard for any trumpet player.

Finally found footage of Arnold Jacobs playing

@williamirwin7107

5 жыл бұрын

Ben Sexton he was even greater in person

@allwinds3786

4 жыл бұрын

@@williamirwin7107 indeed! What a sound!

@williamirwin7107

4 жыл бұрын

Donald Schneider I took more from him in a year, than I did from all of my previous instructors over the course of a decade. He was a master of performance, but he was a God, at teaching

Doesn't hurt to have the Chicago Symphony Brass Section play this piece! Legends!!

@trumpeterchris

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah this performance is awesome! I’ve never seen Hindemith conduct either-he’s great too!

@gregmonks

Жыл бұрын

The Chicago and London Symphonies were hogging many of the best wind players in the business in those days. The brass in both sympohonies could dislodge the conductor's cheap toupe from a distance of fifty yards. And the woodwinds! Their tonguing and articulation used to amaze me.

@johannesortmann2789

Жыл бұрын

Sorry guys. The brass is a bit to shrill and stiff for my taste. The Performance of the Hindemith piece is simply not propulsive enough. I prefer the recordings with Steinberg/BSO and Blomstedt/SFS. I like Arnold Jacobs, but I think Chester Schmitz and Floyd Cooley were the superior musicians. The ripped off Bruckner 7 is an insult. It is all played standard traffic noise forte, boring and vociferous! The standard traffic noise forte reveals the emptiness of the Brahms overture adequatly.

@gregmonks

Жыл бұрын

@@johannesortmann2789 It often amazes me how often certain people will open their mouths in order to display their utter lack of intelligence to all within hearing distance.

In my 50 year enjoyment of Hindemith's music, I had never seen him live, much less conducting. What a treat

April 7, 1963 Paul Hindemith conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra 00:18 Hindemith - Concert Music for Brass and String Orchestra, Op. 50 02:01 Arnold Jacobs, Tuba 18:04 Bruckner - Symphony No. 7, Movement 1 37:35 Brahms - Academic Festival Overture

@dgunde13gunderson78

11 ай бұрын

fantastic! we played with Arnold Jacobs in Boulder CO. not this piece ..I was buddys with Trombone/Tubist in the orchestra so we read a lot of weird sonatas with piano esp Hindemith. my role in orchestra as tutti violist under Ozzie the violin virtuoso/conductor back in the early 80s Douglas viola, piano, organ, conductor, guitar, etc SD CA

@crescentmoon54

2 ай бұрын

I heard that Arnold Jacobs only had one lung....

Hindemith had his critics concerning his conducting. But I can't see why, clear, concise and even I could follow him!! The importance of his work in the 20th Century should never be forgotten and this film goes a long way to ensure it wont be. What a composer he was and to think that at the end of the year this was recorded he passed away. Terrible loss to music. (I was 5).

@johnschumacher8725

5 жыл бұрын

It appears the worst that could be said about Hindemith's conducting is that perhaps he wasn't as great a conductor as he was a composer. Of course he is conducting Reiner's magnificently trained orchestra, whose musicians had better come in exactly in time with total confidence, or else.

The Hindemith violin concerto was first performed by the Concertgebouw orchestra with their leader as soloist and has never been performed by them since and has never been performed at the BBC Proms, nor has it ever been performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra of which I was a member. It was first recorded by Joseph Fuchs and has since been recorded by Oistrakh and others. Such a great piece does not deserve such neglect, but happily Carla Marrero, the brilliant young Spanish violinist, has added it to her repertoire.

Arnold Jacobs sounds absolutely marvelous in this recording. Wow! Wish I could have been in the hall for this one.

It's was so much fun to see Donald Peck principal flute when he was only 33 at that time. I met Donald Peck at the famous Rose Records after a Friday afternoon concert in 1979 and he signed my program for me. I still have that program.

Hindemith takes a back seat to no other composer with the exception J.S. Bach.

@Alix777.

4 ай бұрын

JS Bach never invented anything and his music is the most boring ever. Handel, Scarlatti, Telemann all better than this boring old fart

13:57 - 14:24 Is a masterclass in and of itself.

Wonderful performance. What “big-hearted” and committed playing: the give him their - considerable - “all”. The CSO’s preeminence has deep roots. And an unusually apt and adept video “capture”. Audio not bad either. Timeless.

That's the Chicago Symphony! Vince and Wil were my 🎺 teachers at Northwestern University in 1978. Michael McClary, Professor of Trumpet 🎺, Georgia Perimeter College & GSU

Genius camera shots showing the right person at the right time.

Absolutely incredible performance and such an important find. I never knew Hindemith conducted the CSO until I saw this video.

@eguirald

2 жыл бұрын

Neither did I! Absolutely incredible…

Fantastic composer who could write idiomatically for any instrument.

To think that the principal trombone of this performance is still in the orchestra to this day.

@ibizaking

4 жыл бұрын

is that Jay Friedman???

@ThaSchwab

4 жыл бұрын

@@ibizaking Yes, I believe he joined the CSO in 1962

@lbocaner

4 жыл бұрын

@@ibizaking Looks more like Bob Lambert to me!

@PhilMargolies

4 жыл бұрын

@@lbocaner Yes. Bob Lambert was principal trombone from 1954 to 1964.

@ThaSchwab

2 жыл бұрын

@@PhilMargolies Well, I guess he isn't the principal in this performance but I assume he's playing

Thank you for posting these very important musical document with Hindemith conducting the CSO

An important documentary concert. Thank you for uploading it. One of the towering musical figures of the 20th century conducting his own music.

This is just dream orchestral playing--with the singing, authoritative oboe artistry of Ray Still amongst the stellar wind section.

@richs4703

2 жыл бұрын

Still was away that week. Grover Schiltz was on hand to do the honors, Not exactly chopped liver.

I never knew Hindemith conducted Reiner's CSO. Exceptional playing of exceptional music by a then living master conducting his own music and that two of his forbears. The long sinuous lines of the Konzertmusik slow movement are perfectly rendered and then the blues inflections which no one ever talks about sassy. William Schuman and Roy Harris wrote similarly. Hindemith has been dissed as an academic. And if an academic writes music this well we're all in trouble. The Bruckner had weight, transparency, and drive. And the Brahms . Wow. I lived in Chicago during Solti's first season. Great orchestra. They even did Boulez after Solti left.

Wonderful performances. Hindemith could have been a star conductor had his greater talent as a composer not won out. Lucky for us to have this record of both. At the risk of being kicked out of the music cognoscenti club, the Bruckner movement seems to me just the right dose.

Thanks for the rare treasure of seeing Hindemith conduct CSO. Had no idea this existed. It was just over 8 months until his death. One of my favorite composers.

I love the way Hindemith conducts the Brahms

One of my favourite orchestral performances! A true treasure!!!!

Seeing Maestro Hindemith in concert is simply fascinating. I went to a college visitation back in early 2020, and I got to sit in a rehearsal with the wind ensemble there. One of the pieces they played was Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis. Absolutely wonderful. 😊

Hindemith und Martinu waren meine ersten Begegnungen mit der Moderne durch meine Geigenlehrerin. Ich gestehe, als Kind zwar folgsam gewesen zu sein, doch musikalisch verstanden hatte ich nichts. Heute, im Alter, verehre ich Hindemith. (Meine erste aktive Begegnung mit Hindemith war die Sonate in E in jugendlichem Alter).

The Reiner CSO Orchestra with the Brass seated along the back wall. Horn section for Hindemith visible at 2:29 : Joe Mourek, 4th; Wayne Barrington, 3rd, Clyde Wedgwood, 2nd, Dave Krehbiel (!) 1st; Frank Brouk, Assistant. Frank Brouk plays 1st with Krehbiel Assisting on Bruckner 1st Mvt. visible at 25:22 and Krehbiel again plays Horn 1 on Brahms at 40:46. A magnificent performance. The end of the Hindemith is hair raising!

@Tigerwarhawk

6 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's Krehbiel?! Good stuff!! And to add, he is playing on a Holton.

@davidgray9671

4 жыл бұрын

two 8D's I saw in the section at first glance. Phil told me that Reiner liked Conns

@FrankB1001

4 жыл бұрын

Hindemith apparently took to Krehbiel during this visit. The CSO manager at the time (Seymour Raven) had lied to Krehbiel who thought he would remain co-principal with Brouk. But Raven hired a new principal horn behind their backs. Hindemith ripped Raven a new one when Krehbiel told him he was leaving the CSO to become principal in Detroit. This kind of duplicitous political crap eventually led to Jean Martinon getting Raven fired.

@klingelhorn

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidgray9671 Broukk and Krehbiel are playing Holtons, Wedgwood is playing a Geyer, Barrington is playing something with a Bb tuning slide, probably a Holton, and Mourek is playing something not an 8D that I can't identify. I never saw Mourek play a nickel brass horn.

@rickdynes

Жыл бұрын

Oh Wow THANK YOU .. was very curious about the Horn section personnel pre Clevenger Chicago Horn Section was a real missing part in my knowledge about the history of the CSO BRASS and this Comment And thread is extremely Helpful and Fascinating! There were similar dramas in the Trombone section in the 50s and possibly into the 60s.. I just don't think that David Cooper really Grasped that the CSO and the CSO BRASS of Recent years Still has Much of the Same DNA and that DNA is totally okay with doing things that can be quite chilling and painful for some players who may be in the wrong place at the wrong time... and now the cold reality for EVERYONE involved: Sadly, the truth may Be that Prime Dale Clevenger will Never be replaced with a player that is in or Near THAT Stratosphere as an Artist.. Maybe the new and young and immensely talented 1st Horn player with Cleveland could be made an offer he can't refuse by Chicago maybe... or maybe some unknown could Shock the world in upcoming auditions I would love to see Cooper win the audition Again *with some Slight but Critical adjustments in his sound, playing and Artistry* and Show the CSO a lot of the TRANSCENDENT stuff that they REALLY want from their 1st Horn player! .. and yet .... THAT is asking so very much from ANY mere Mortal.

Amazing performance and quality!Hindemith was also amazing conductor!

Wow! Thank you so much for sharing. Such amazing playing. And what an amazing sound. I couldn't quite believe that there were only 6 cellos. Shame it wasn't the whole symphony but what an astonishing historical document.

The performance is perfect, rarely hear that even nowdays , it is clear that Hindemith was a genius who was developing, He was probably a perfectionist. I wonder how he played the viola, whether there are recordings of his performance on the viola ? O I found now! He was also amazing viola player.I am listening for the second day in a row, I am very impressed by the performance of His own music and the music of Brahms and Bruckner.

Heard him conduct in Edinburgh in 1955. Fascinating occasions - the Berlin Philharmonic was there( probably the intention had been that Furtwangler would conduct it, but he had died the previous autumn, and Keilberth conducted instead) and so, leading the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, was its pre-Hitler leader, and trio partner of Hindemtih and Feuermann, Szymon Goldberg. Both of Hindemith's programmes with the orchestra included Bach Suites and his own pieces, with Mainardi as soloist in the Cello Concerto. and the Concertmusic for Strings and Brass. Not even a suspicion of the Hindemith of the 1920s - and no Bruckner, either. But you did feel the war was finally over.

A wonderful recording conducted by on of the great composers. Period.

Season ticket for $10.00. See my previous comment. I was a student of Jacobs at the time. Going to a concert of the CSO was pretty as exciting as going to a Green Bay Packer game at the time (early 60's)... if you were a brass player.

This performance of Opus 50 packs such an emotional wallop!! Am I surprised? Of course not, but I’m overjoyed to be able to actually *see* the great maestro himself. I cannot thank you enough for sharing this precious footage. Also, it took me far too long to discover your channel :) -Kind regards

I'm glad to find this treasure.

What an amazing find!! I was going to write something about living in a time where seeing these legendary performances is possible…. And then out of nowhere they began Bruckner 7 and now I’m at a loss for words…

How excellent! one of my favorite pieces conducted by a great composer and performed by a fabulous orchestra!!

Absolutely incredible performance!!! Thank you for uploading

Nice to See Him Conduct ! First time for me !The Sound is Great! Too! for 1963! A Rare Gem Thanks!

Maravilloso concierto. Una joya histórica.

I've always loved this composition, especially the first movement. The highly syncopated, contrapuntal intricacies in the strings serve the stunning rhythmic verve, which is rarely matched in the symphonic repertoire. William Schuman also understands how to express passionate and rhythmic groove. And to observe the consummate musician conduct his masterpiece with such a superlative orchestra is magnificent! A treasure to all of humanity.

Love the Konzertmusik Op. 50! First Movement is just ballsy and heroic with the trademark Hindemith KRAFT! (Ger. 'power')

I want more!!!! ;-) It's great to see so much of Bud Herseth in his prime!

@r.kittrell8547

2 жыл бұрын

His "prime" lasted decades.

@stevematchett5518

2 жыл бұрын

His “prime” was like 40 years long.

One of the great 20th C composers. Can't get enough Hindemith. Love Matis der Mahler.

Even in this monophonic television recording you can hear the wonderful acoutics Orchestra Hall had originally. The botched 1966 renovation to install air conditioning deadened the hall so badly they could no longer record there. An unbelievable blunder!

very good orchestra performance everything perfect synchronization marvel!

So beautiful

Important music from an important composer.

Fantastica testimonianza dell'arte di un grandissimo musicista.Straordinario!

Hindemith's music is underplayed. Unfortunately.

@blazingbirds88

4 жыл бұрын

This is simply untrue. His music is played extremely frequently and has entered the standard canon in almost every medium he wrote for (orchestra, band, brass quintet, etc.) His music is extremely commonplace nowadays, if you want to talk about an underplayed composer then research Ida Gotkovsky.

@paulbrower4265

4 жыл бұрын

@@blazingbirds88 Underplayed? Robert Simpson!

@mikedaniels3009

3 жыл бұрын

Masochist convention.

What a treasure!

Hindemith conducts the CSO. This is the 1st time I've seen this. Damn! Listen to the POWER he gets from the already amazing Winds and Brass. PH conducts Brahms and Bruckner!? Brahms if Brahms were a Brass player.

Not too difficult to watch this and, apart from hair and beard, imagine that this was Brahms conducting. What a legendary piece of video!!

It's wonderful to see Hindemith's passion as a conductor. He knows his music, he loves the music and he communicates all of that to the players. The CSO! What a wonderful treasure! What a wonderful history of music-making. The sound on this video is truly amazing!

We are so lucky to have this , Ive seen Stravinsky and Messaien talk and conduct but i had forgotten Hindemith was on film ! Thankyou so much !

Muchas gracias por compartir este vídeo! 🤗

Amazing!!

Excelente ! Thankyou !

Wonderful!

Thanks again.

2:42 - 2:53 DAT SOUND!!

Wonderful! Great!!!

great recording!

Superb!

Great Hindemith ! I play Ludus Tonalis , very proud . my students performing sonatas and many more ,

Him conducting his own music here is every bit as badass as any live 1986 recording of Ronnie James Dio. The intensity melts my computer.

Great stuff.

Cheers!

Wonderful command.

Fantastic music and fantastic brass playing by all.

Great brass section, as always.

Hindemith immense compositeur. Ecoutez ses Kammermusik. (entr'autres )

Unique, more than a treasure, a part of mankind heritage with capital H. Thank you!!!

It is amazing to hear maestro Hindemith conducting the CSO! No doubt it is a históricas performance! Thanks for upploading

Un privilegio escuchar y ver esta grabación. Yo siempre he encontrado similitudes entre Hindemith y Brahms. 108/5000 A privilege to listen and watch this recording. I have always found similarities between Hindemith and Brahms.

I never knew he conducted Bruckner! Pity it wasn’t the entire symphony.

So strange to see this place I spend so much time, before I was born. Has to be a Friday Matinee by the sparse attendance.

Arnold Jacobs slays my life

Bud!!🌟

Treasure!

Jacobs 😍

remarkable that eight months later he passed away

@phillipecook3227

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. I couldn't equate " died 1963" to the the energetic and vigorous figure on the rostrum.

Makes me wonder what that Furtwängler appointment with the cso might have sounded like.

めちゃくちゃオーケストラ上手いっすね。wonderful🎵

I'd long heard of this video but had never seen it. Hindemith died only eight months after these performances.

Hindemith must've been a viola player of some distinction also - he gave the premiere of Walton's concerto.

Hindemith passed away eight months later.

FANTASTIC, VERY INTERESTING, AND QUITE IMPORTANT. THANKS A LOT. mv

A new work to me. Love it.

It's unusual to see a performance of this with the woodwind players on stage. Usually they stay offstage until the work is over.

@richs4703

Жыл бұрын

Usual protocol for TV shows by the CSO in those days - everyone onstage for the full hour program.

Is this available on dvd? Thanks very much! Brilliant.

@HindemithperformsHindemith

Жыл бұрын

Yes, It is

Paul the giant

Bruckner 18:07 Brahms 37：30