Covid claims a Philadelphia Orchestra legend

Covid claims a Philadelphia Orchestra legend

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norman lebrecht

April 26, 2020

Musicians of the Philadephia Orchestra are mourning the death of Alan Abel, a member of its percussion section from 1959 to 1997 and inventor of innumerable gadgets, among them a bass drum suspended on rubber bands. Alan Abel was 88.

As a sought after teacher at Temple University, he raised generations of young percussionists.

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