Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Ralph Gomberg, 1921-2006

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Oboist Ralph Gomberg

Not that I expect you to view the passing of a revered artist through the prism of the Celebrity Series, but since you stopped in, and since we are proud to have presented him, if only once, here goes:



Oboist Ralph Gomberg, long the BSO's principal on that instrument, was a founding member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players. The Celebrity Series presented the ensemble along with soprano Phyllis Curtin at Jordan Hall in January of 1973. The program included Stravinsky, Schubert, Villa-Lobos and Shostakovich, plus an unprogrammed L'Invitation au Voyage by Chabrier, but it was Bach's Stumme Seufzer from Cantata No. 199, and Gott versorget from Cantata No. 187 that featured Mr. Gomberg.

Louis Snyder, reviewing for The Christian Science Monitor, wrote of the concert, "The house was full, attentive, and boundlessly enthusiastic."



Boston Globe obituary



New York Times obituary



Article on Mr. Gomberg from the Boston Symphony Orchestra newsletter
(posted on the International Double Reed Society web site)



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