Howard Frye archive recording on NYPR Radio

[Martin Jonas]

I've just come across this nice archive recording of Howard Frye playing live with the New York Workmen's Circle Mandolin Orchestra, sometime in the 1960s. No idea what the piece is -- something Eastern European and lively:

https://www.wnyc.org/story/tribute-to-howard-frye

Martin

[Jim Garber]

Thanks, Martin. That sounds like a Klezmer tune. The Workman's Circle Mandolin Orchestra eventually merged with the New York Mandolin Orchestra and Howard's widow was in the orchestra when I joined. Howard passed away before I joined tho i do have his LP. Many years ago Barry Mitterhoff sent me some recordings of a mandolin quartet that Frye and other luminati of that era played in. I have to dig that out.