Double bassist for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Assistant Principal Bass Emeritus -She held the Guinness World Record for having the longest professional tenure with just one orchestra.Mrs Little attended the University of Georgia where she studied for four years with the principal bass player of the Chicago Symphony.
Little joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra when she was 16 years old after studying bass in high school for two years.She was a charter member of the Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra in 1945, playing under all four of the ASO's music directors.
She performed under guest conductors including Igor Stravinsky and Sir John Barbirolli, while also touring with the American Ballet Theatre and Boris Goldovsky Opera Theatre.She also performed under well-known guest conductors,
Aaron Copland, Pierre Monteux, Leopold Stokowski, and James Levine.
Mrs. Little played a rare Carlo Giuseppi Testore bass, made in about 1705.
She was married to the orchestra's principal flautist, Warren Little, for 41 years before he passed away in 2002.
She spent her last day at her home for 71 yrs. on the stage at Symphony Hall.The orchestra was at the very end of a pops concert, “Broadway’s Golden Age,” where the orchestra was finishing an encore, the Irving Berlin tune “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” when Little collapsed into unconsciousness. She was carried off stage by her fellow bassists. She’d been undergoing chemotherapy for multiple myeloma.
A memorial service will be held Sunday May 22 at 6:30 o'clock at Symphony Hall.
Little joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra when she was 16 years old after studying bass in high school for two years.She was a charter member of the Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra in 1945, playing under all four of the ASO's music directors.
She performed under guest conductors including Igor Stravinsky and Sir John Barbirolli, while also touring with the American Ballet Theatre and Boris Goldovsky Opera Theatre.She also performed under well-known guest conductors,
Aaron Copland, Pierre Monteux, Leopold Stokowski, and James Levine.
Mrs. Little played a rare Carlo Giuseppi Testore bass, made in about 1705.
She was married to the orchestra's principal flautist, Warren Little, for 41 years before he passed away in 2002.
She spent her last day at her home for 71 yrs. on the stage at Symphony Hall.The orchestra was at the very end of a pops concert, “Broadway’s Golden Age,” where the orchestra was finishing an encore, the Irving Berlin tune “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” when Little collapsed into unconsciousness. She was carried off stage by her fellow bassists. She’d been undergoing chemotherapy for multiple myeloma.
A memorial service will be held Sunday May 22 at 6:30 o'clock at Symphony Hall.
Double bassist for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Assistant Principal Bass Emeritus -She held the Guinness World Record for having the longest professional tenure with just one orchestra.Mrs Little attended the University of Georgia where she studied for four years with the principal bass player of the Chicago Symphony.
Little joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra when she was 16 years old after studying bass in high school for two years.She was a charter member of the Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra in 1945, playing under all four of the ASO's music directors.
She performed under guest conductors including Igor Stravinsky and Sir John Barbirolli, while also touring with the American Ballet Theatre and Boris Goldovsky Opera Theatre.She also performed under well-known guest conductors,
Aaron Copland, Pierre Monteux, Leopold Stokowski, and James Levine.
Mrs. Little played a rare Carlo Giuseppi Testore bass, made in about 1705.
She was married to the orchestra's principal flautist, Warren Little, for 41 years before he passed away in 2002.
She spent her last day at her home for 71 yrs. on the stage at Symphony Hall.The orchestra was at the very end of a pops concert, “Broadway’s Golden Age,” where the orchestra was finishing an encore, the Irving Berlin tune “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” when Little collapsed into unconsciousness. She was carried off stage by her fellow bassists. She’d been undergoing chemotherapy for multiple myeloma.
A memorial service will be held Sunday May 22 at 6:30 o'clock at Symphony Hall.
Little joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra when she was 16 years old after studying bass in high school for two years.She was a charter member of the Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra in 1945, playing under all four of the ASO's music directors.
She performed under guest conductors including Igor Stravinsky and Sir John Barbirolli, while also touring with the American Ballet Theatre and Boris Goldovsky Opera Theatre.She also performed under well-known guest conductors,
Aaron Copland, Pierre Monteux, Leopold Stokowski, and James Levine.
Mrs. Little played a rare Carlo Giuseppi Testore bass, made in about 1705.
She was married to the orchestra's principal flautist, Warren Little, for 41 years before he passed away in 2002.
She spent her last day at her home for 71 yrs. on the stage at Symphony Hall.The orchestra was at the very end of a pops concert, “Broadway’s Golden Age,” where the orchestra was finishing an encore, the Irving Berlin tune “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” when Little collapsed into unconsciousness. She was carried off stage by her fellow bassists. She’d been undergoing chemotherapy for multiple myeloma.
A memorial service will be held Sunday May 22 at 6:30 o'clock at Symphony Hall.
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