Posted by Andy Miller on April 10, 2001 at 21:34:22:
In Reply to: The most Influential...... posted by Chuck Jackson on April 08, 2001 at 21:27:10:
My first year of college: Hearing the LA Phil (Bobo) doing a live broadcast of Tchaik 4. It was the first orchestra concert I ever heard, plus I had the tuba part in front of me (first time I ever did that as well!)
It had such an ipmpact on me that I decided then and there to be a professional tubist (music ed prior to that) and transferred the next year up to DePaul to study with Gene (his first year in Chicago).
There I had another experience...my first CSO concert was Solti conducting the 8th Symphony of some dude named Bruckner.