Re: Peter Schenkman - Was Re: Richter at Carnegie on Doremi
- From: "alanwatkinsuk@xxxxxxx" <alanwatkinsuk@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 25 Feb 2006 15:03:24 -0800
Andrys Basten wrote:
In article <1140295403.64574@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Phil Caron <vladimir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Received shipment of Doremi's Richter set of his 1960 Carnegie Hall
performances.
Peter Schenkman, who posted here regularly in the last couple
of years, wrote the liner notes for this set.
For those who haven't heard the bad news, several
posted about today in various music groups about his
death 3 days ago, and Ates Tanin posted the
Globe and Mail entry on our pianists group.
===
"PETER QUARLES SCHENKMAN passed away on Wednesday, February
22nd, 2006. Peter was born in New York City on December 6th,
1937. Between 1955 and 1959 Peter studied cello with Leonard
Rose at the Curtis Institute. During this time he performed as
a member of the Casals Festival Orchestra in San Juan, Puerto
Rico.
In 1959, shortly before graduating from Curtis, Peter
successfully auditioned for Eugene Ormandy for a position in
the Philadelphia Orchestra, however the United States Army
drafted him and he spent the next three years in Washington as
a member of the U.S. Army Band studying under Claus Adam,
'cellist of the Julliard Quartet.
Upon his discharge in 1962, Peter won an open audition for a
place in the Boston Symphony and remained with the BSO for
three years. In 1965 Peter was offered and accepted the
position of principal cellist with the St. Louis Symphony by
Eleazer De Carvalho.
He stayed in St. Louis for two years before moving to Toronto
and accepting the position of principal cellist with the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra at the invitation of Seiji Ozawa.
Peter stayed with the TSO through Karel Ancerl's (the former
Music Director of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra) tenure,
leaving after Ancerls' death at the end of the 1974 season.
While a principal cellist, Peter gave first performances of the
Hindemith Concerto of 1940 (in St. Louis) and the (discovered)
Haydn Concerto in C Major (in Toronto).
Peter's Canadian premiers included Britten's Cello Symphony,
the Schoenberg/Monn Concerto and Penderecki's Sonata for Cello
and Orchestra. Peter was also a soloist under the baton of
Ancerl in both the Beethoven Triple Concerto and the Brahms
Double Concerto for the Beethoven and Brahms festivals that the
Toronto Symphony held at the end of their 1970 and 1973
seasons.
Upon leaving the TSO, Peter worked as a freelance musician.
He performed at the Casals festival (including three
appearances as principal cellist in the late 1970s), for three
years as a member of the CBC Toronto"
=======
Others in online groups that:
"There will be a small gathering of his friends and family at the
Humphrey Funeral Home, 1403 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada."
which I'm adding in case anyone reading knew Peter but did not hear
the news.
There is an interesting forum for the "classicalmusicguide"
that Peter joined, and there he participated quite a bit
as late as February 14.
The thread he started in January about this Doremi release of the
Richter recitals and his liner notes for them is at:
http://www.classicalmusicguide.com//viewtopic.php?p=102658&highlight=#102658
Peter had quite a database of musical experiences
he enjoyed sharing, whether tales from recordings he
participated in or his many and varied concert experiences.
- Andrys
RIP Mr Musician.
Alan M. Watkins
.
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