Donald Peck, the principal flutist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1958 to 1999, died on Friday at his home in Chicago. He was 92.
It could also radiate with life-affirming splendor. Who needs beachside real estate when you can hear a Lake Michigan sunrise in the CSO’s 1965recording, Peck’s thrushlike flute calls sporting against an otherworldly vista of pastel sky?
Solti is often credited with eventually brokering an uneasy détente between the two. While true, Peck himself cited a different turning point. During the Solti era, while easing into his seat, Still once knocked Peck’s flute off his stand onto the floor. Those onstage, including Peck, froze in horror.
Flutist Donald Peck of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on the orchestra stage at Symphony Center between rehearsals in 1998, before his retirement. Born Jan. 26, 1930, in Yakima, Washington, Peck played in the Seattle Youth Symphony and Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra as a young man before attending the Curtis Institute on a scholarship, where he studied with Philadelphia Orchestra principal flutist William Kincaid. Before Reiner’s invitation in 1957, he was principal flute of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, having also performed with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and in the U.S. Marine Band.
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