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

stern = 'focussed'

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.

@@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 .

@@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. 😁

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

@@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.

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.

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

Ben Sexton he was even greater in person

@@williamirwin7107 indeed! What a sound!

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

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

@@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.

@@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 :)

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

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

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

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.

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.

@@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.

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

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.

Neither did I! Absolutely incredible…

is that Jay Friedman???

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

@@ibizaking Looks more like Bob Lambert to me!

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

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

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

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

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.

@@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.

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.

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

His "prime" lasted decades.

His “prime” was like 40 years long.

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.

@@blazingbirds88 Underplayed? Robert Simpson!

Masochist convention.

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

This was a special concert for TV, not a regular subscription concert (hence the excerpted Bruckner). Apparently the audience was limited for this TV series.