…we’re talking about Sir Georg Solti on Letterman.
We’re also talking about WQXR (#($)!_@!), Daniel Barenboim, Alan Gilbert, Riccardo Muti, and the origins of the word “Philharmonic.”
And then we’re talking about Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, discussions about the Philharmonic moving to Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Hall’s RESTORATION, the Philharmonic’s PROGRAMMING, young artists’ careers…it just goes on and on. And on. If I wasn’t currently on hold with The Death Trap That Is Verizon about my non-existent voicemail for going on 47 minutes now, I would think this was a dream.
Thanks to living 30 Rock Wiki and sometimes concert pianist Jonathan for sending.
The eye-rubbing/pinching-yourself part starts at minute 4:50:
I’m told the head of the LA Philharmonic press department handed Alec Baldwin a LA Phil tour t-shirt backstage at the Thibaudet/Dudamel concert Thursday, to which I say,
Paws off, “L” “A”, this one’s ours.
Actually there WAS a guy named Phil Harmonic. He got a Masters degree in composition from Mills College in Oakland sometime in the 1970s (?, maybe early 1980s) and has a couple of pieces recorded on the Lovely Music label http://www.lovely.com/bios/harmonic.html
If only he’d had his music played on the Letterman show. Oh, well.