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review stated “This is a sound job, one free from oversimplification or the sensational effects in which so many modern transcriptions indulge. Mr. Bloomfield tells us that he tried to instrumentate as he believes Bach would have done had he had a modern orchestra at his disposal”. He closed his
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praised him for handling “his young soloists flawlessly, working closely with them and seeing to it that their tempos and phrasings were accurately followed. It was a noble job”. He served as a judge for the
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on March 18, 1958. He served there for the 1959-1963 seasons. One of the works he premiered with that orchestra was
Bernard Rogers “Variations on a Mussorgsky Song”, which was also recorded and released by Composers Recordings as CRI 153. He also conducted the Rochester Philharmonic for
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1955-1959 (he was one of the guest conductors for the orchestra in the 1954–1955 season). In four seasons in
Portland, he introduced 62 works new to the orchestra audience. Prominent artists he invited to Portland included the pianists
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Frankfort State Opera also for three years - 1966–1968. He guest conducted in Europe and also led the Berliner Symphoniker (West Berlin) 1975–1982.
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Bloomfield resigned from his position in
Rochester amid acrimonious circumstances, claiming that "everyone was against him." In May 1964 he signed a three-year contract to become the conductor of the
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competition held in New York in March 1963. This was the second
Mitropoulos competition (the first being for pianists). An Oregon Symphony conductor-to-be was one of the entrants here –
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