Adolph Herseth

Adolph Herseth held one of the lengthiest tenures among members of a major symphony orchestra: he served as principal trumpet for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 53 years from 1948 until 2001! There are entries for him in major music reference works, a distinction few musicians can claim whose performance career was mainly devoted to orchestral service. Although Herseth made relatively few recordings as a soloist, he appeared on almost all of the several hundred of the CSO's from the latter half of the 20th century. Adolph (Bud) Herseth was born in Lake Park, Minnesota, on...