Tuba legend dies

Tuba legend dies

RIP

norman lebrecht

February 13, 2023

The death has been communicated of Roger Bobo, former principal tuba of the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Bernard Haitink (1962–1964) and of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, 1964–1989 with Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Giulini and André Previn.

He was 84.

Rpger moved last month to New Mexico, where he was taken ill and died.

He laid claim to have given the first-ever solo tuba recital at Carnegie Hall.

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