Arthur Weisberg
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Arthur Weisberg (born 1938) is an American bassoonist, conductor, and author.
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[edit] Biography
Arthur Weisberg was born in New York City. He attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and later the Juilliard School, majoring in bassoon and studying with Simon Kovar.
Soon after graduation he found notable success securing the principal chairs with the Houston and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras and second bassoon with the Cleveland Orchestra, before coming back to New York City. After pursuing study of conducting with Jean Morel he again returned to the bassoon as principal for Symphony of the Air as well as bassoonist of the New York Woodwind Quintet for 14 years.
In the realm of conducting he has conducted the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Sjaellands and Aalborg Symphonies of Denmark.
Weisberg has also extensively taught, holding posts at the Juilliard School, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Yale School of Music, and currently at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.
[edit] Books
Weisberg also authored two books: The Art of Wind Playing (G. Schirmer) and Performing 20th Century Music-a Handbook for Conductors and Instrumentalists (Yale University Press) as well as composed and edited numerous scores, including the Bach Cello Suites.[1]
[edit] "Future Bassoon" system
Arthur Weisburg introduced a new bassoon which he claimed was "Absolutely unable to crack. Perfect slurs on the most problematic notes. Never having to flick again. Ease of fingering. Better quality and pitch on six of the worst notes. This is what the Weisberg System promises and delivers, and it does all of this automatically, with no new fingerings to learn."</ref>Future Bassoon system website. Retrieved March 22, 2007.</ref>
[edit] References
- ^ University of Indiana faculty biography page. Retrieved March 22, 2007.
