RAFAEL KUBELÍK: Chicago Symphony Sessionography
May 26, 2021Thomas Fine explains the background to the Kubelík Mercury Masters Sometime immediately before 23 April 1951, two young men boarded a train in New York City and travelled to Chicago carrying a new and technologically ground-breaking microphone. Recording engineers C. Robert (‘Bob’) Fine, 29, and George Piros, 31, arrived at Orchestra Hall the morning of […]