John G. Deacon wrote:
>It was odd, too, that Gus' producer at EMI was the Indian Suvi Raj Grubb
>who, thanks to a strong recommendation from Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, came
>to retire over the hill from here at Moraira so that I spent many many
>evenings listening to his stories of his time first as Walter Legge's
>assistant and of recording Karajan ("who is that black man over there" -
>one of Suvi's amusing stories of his first encounter with HvK), Klemperer,
>du Pre, Barenboim, Previn, Slava, Ashkenazy, Zukerman, Perlman etc...
>(Suvi & I had been in EMI together during many years). ...
Suvi Grubb wrote a fascinating autobiography detailing his musical life
w/ EMI called *Music Makers on Record*, describing, inter alia, the
disappearance and reemergence of the Philharmonia, as well as the
production of many landmark EMI recordings.
Walter Meyer
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