Posted on 11/22/2015 11:49:20 AM PST by EveningStar
Leading concertmasters* and close friends have shared reports of the death today of Joseph Silverstein, legendary concertmaster of the Boston Symphony from 1962 to 1984. He was 83.
After stepping down at Boston he became music director of the Utah Symphony, 1993 to 1998, a most uncommon upgrade.
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The world is rapidly running out of people that actually know how to play their instruments in a time where access to instruments and technology is at it’s greatest and least expensive ever.
Sad ping... RIP, Joseph Silverstein.
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