Reiner/Chicago Symphony (RCA VICS-1025 Stereo) (Recording date unknown Harry playing triangle, gong, and chimes) Reiner/Chicago Symphony (RCA Victor LM-2201 Red Seal) In a letter, Harry said he was playing “legit snare drum” here, with “Mousie” Alexander doing the jazz drum solo.) Liberman: Concerto for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra (Recorded in 1954.Reiner/Chicago Symphony and the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra (RCA Victor LM-1888 Red Seal) Reiner/Chicago Symphony (RCA Victor LM-1934 Red Seal)īartok: Concerto for Orchestra (Recorded in 1956 Harry on snare drum) 54: Dance of the Seven Veils (Harry on snare drum) Weinberger: Schwanda, the Bagpipe Player: Polka and Fugue (Harry on snare drum).Reiner/Chicago Symphony (RCA VICS-1424) Recorded in 1956. Many vinyl albums lack any reference to the date or even the year a recording was made, but I have included dates I was able to verify through Web research or album notes.ĭvorak: New World Symphony (Recorded in 1956 Harry on triangle in the 3 rd movement) Given his steel-trap memory, even after so many years I didn’t doubt that he remembered exactly what he was playing in each of the recordings documented below. After dubbing some of these albums to tapes for me and friends, I asked him to tell me what instrument he was playing in each recording. As he indicated in one of his letters, “In recordings made from 1951–1956, I am usually playing snare drum or mallets.”ĭuring the sixties and seventies, Harry acquired a small collection of Chicago Symphony recordings on vinyl that he made with Fritz Reiner or Rafael Kubelik in the fifties.
THE FOLLOWING LIST includes only some of the many recordings the Chicago Symphony Orchestra made during the years Harry was in the Orchestra or performing there as an extra percussionist. Regrettably, none of them found their way into his record collection.
The Orchestra made several 78-rpm recordings for RCA while Kindler was there, so Harry would have been playing on some of these recordings. HARRY WAS IN THIS Symphony from 1946 to 1949 with Hans Kindler, conductor. Repeat the search on Google to see images of most of these albums. Just search for the album label name and label shown in the listings below. You can hear some of these albums or selected music from them on YouTube. Many of the percussionists of that era are also mentioned in this article. This is merely a listing of some of the recordings on which his playing can be heard today, with notations of the instruments he said he was playing. HARRY MADE COUNTLESS RECORDINGS through the years as a jazz drummer or percussionist with various big bands, radio and television orchestras, symphony orchestras, and other groups.
Adapted from the author’s biographical memoir, The Drummer Drives! Everybody Else Rides. A wealth of LP recording history is documented in this article featuring albums by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, big band and other band recordings, and classic percussion albums of the fifties and the percussionists who made them.
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