We made a record together for oboe, violin, viola, and cello, with Pinky Zuckerman playing viola, Lynn Harrell playing cello, and then he had said he wanted to do the Bach double with me. Ray Still Well, Itzhak and I had played together several times. But before we hear, this is you and Itzhak Perlman, it's the Bach concerto, Johann Sebastian Bach concerto for the violin and oboe and when, what were the circumstances of this one?
I've been thinking about the oboe and I'll ask you about the oboe and the role it's played in symphony orchestras as well as in chamber groups too. Studs Terkel I think Ray before we talk about your reflections, we'll hear passages and works of you performing with the symphony and other combinations too. We're talking about 37 years ago and for 36 years you've been the first oboe chair. Now, with that orchestra, sitting in the first oboe chair, sitting there since 1953, a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of its honored members indeed, is Ray Still, oboist, and he joined in 1953.
It may be the nonpareil among symphony orchestras anywhere in the world. Studs Terkel We know that the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is a jewel in our city's crown.
