I’m a little late to the table for this one, but I just learned that Frank Kaderabek has died. For me, Kaderabek was a familiar presence from his twenty years as principal trumpet of the Philadelphia Orchestra. But it turns out it was but the crown on an estimable career as an orchestra musician. No doubt he was burnished in the raging fiery furnace of Fritz Reiner’s Chicago Symphony, with its legendary brass section, but he also held positions with the Dallas and Detroit Symphony Orchestras. This may be old news to some, but it’s all new to me. All I know is that Kaderabek was one of the Philly all-stars who played under Ormandy and who made my weekly sojourns to the Academy of Music in the 1980s and ‘90s so rewarding.
Kaderabek died on December 28 at the age of 94. His recordings will live on.
A very informative and satisfying obituary at the link. It really gives a sense of a life well lived.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/inquirer/name/frank-john-kaderabek-obituary?id=53976009
In Scriabin’s “The Poem of Ecstasy”
Opening Mahler’s Symphony No. 5
And Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”
I may be wrong about this, and please correct me if I am, but I believe he’s playing shoulder-to-shoulder here with some legendary brass players of Reiner’s Chicago Symphony – under guest conductor Paul Hindemith!
R.I.P.
