Triva Question

[suzyq]

Here's a trivia question - has a player in any orchestra met and married a fellow player or did you follow the maxim - don't mix romance and buisness.

[canninator]

FWIW my sister-in-law met and married her husband both of whom played in the RLPO at the time. Fascinating, I know.

[springrite]

Here's a trivia question - has a player in any orchestra met and married a fellow player or did you follow the maxim - don't mix romance and buisness.

I have known a few who did. But even more fit the category of "mxing romance and business" without getting ending in marriage. Some of those relationships lasted longer than marriages.

[Brian]

I have known a few who did. But even more fit the category of "mxing romance and business" without getting ending in marriage. Some of those relationships lasted longer than marriages.

Yep. Just read the book Mozart in the Jungle, by a freelance oboist who worked in most of the major orchestras in New York (including the Philharmonic). She landed jobs with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra of St. Luke's by sleeping with their regulars, and had a very unpleasant one-night stand with conductor Keith Lockhart. Orchestral musicians are certainly no different from people in any other workplace when it comes to lovin'.

[jochanaan]

On the other hand, my sister met her husband when they both sang in a local semiprofessional chorus, and they're still happily married nearly two decades later.

[Joe Barron]

The relationships in the Philadelphia Orchestra once resembled the plot of an Updike novel.

[suzyq]

Thanks for all the interesting stories - they would make a good book.

[Dana]

      It happens fairly frequently at music schools (at least it did at Michigan). Conservatories and what not are fairly self-contained, and we tend not to get out much, unless it's with other music students

[Brian]

     It happens fairly frequently at music schools (at least it did at Michigan). Conservatories and what not are fairly self-contained, and we tend not to get out much, unless it's with other music students

At my university, the music students are definitely the most "active", but it makes sense, because they're also the most attractive. I've been trying to find a MUSI girlfriend for years.

[DavidW]

At my university, the music students are definitely the most "active", but it makes sense, because they're also the most attractive.

Narcissism?  Very Papageno-esque. tehehe

[Brian]

Narcissism?  Very Papageno-esque. tehehe

Pardon? I'm an English major.

[DavidW]

Pardon? I'm an English major.

Oh my bad, I thought you were a music major.

[Wendell_E]

I've just been reading an article about the New York Philharmonic Orchestra's new music director that says both of his parents were in the orchestra when he was a kid, and his mother's still in it!

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=8603444

There used to be a married couple in the cello section of the New Orleans Philharmonic (now the Louisiana Philharmonic).  She was the principal.  In our local orchestra (Mobile Symphony), the principal flutist and trombonist are married.

[Dana]

At my university, the music students are definitely the most "active", but it makes sense, because they're also the most attractive.

Still... he's right.

[MishaK]

My parents met in conservatory and subsequently played in a number of orchestras together.

There are/were several musical couples here in the CSO, married and otherwise, that I am aware of, some of which only met once they were members of the orchestra, most notably former Principal Clarinet Larry Combs and former Assistant Principal Horn Gail Williams. 

[Brian]

Oh my bad, I thought you were a music major.

I tell the music majors that I'm a professional listener. 

[jochanaan]

I tell the music majors that I'm a professional listener. 

Nice work if you can get paid for it.