User talk:184.169.235.25

I am the subject, Orin O'Brien, of this Wikipedia entry. I wish to correct several inaccuracies. The first one: my first teacher, Milton Kestenbaum, was principal bass of the Pittsburgh Symphony, Fritz Reiner Music Director. When he joined the NBC Symphony, he was in the bass section. The distinguished Philip Sklar was principal bass of NBC. Herman Reinshagen was the associate principal of the New York Philharmonic (or N.Y. Symphony, before the merger in 1928). He was a pupil of E.Ludwig Manoly, the principal bass at that time, who was brought to New York by Antonin Dvorak to teach at the Conservatory that Dvorak was invited to found here. Reinshagen taught many bassists in New York before he moved to Los Angeles in 1935. He taught Frederick Zimmermann, also my teacher who was a member of the New York Philharmonic for 36 years. The Gunther Schuller Quartet for double basses was not premiered at Marlboro music festival: we recorded it in New York in 1960 and performed it a few months later in Carnegie recital hall. Please correct these errors because they give a mistaken impression, and other publications and schools copy the wrong information from Wikipedia. Thank you. 96.224.10.63 (talk) 00:33, 19 April 2014 (UTC)