Yes, 1966. I was the English-language announcer on the (then) mainly German-language Milwaukee radio station WMIL, whose owner, Gene Posner, created the Carnegie Hall concert. I still have a copy of the printed program somewhere. Being only 16 years old at the time and not German-speaking, I was not among those who were taken to New York for the concert. But through my presence in the WMIL studios for all the Saturday and Sunday editions of announcer Herbert Wittke's "Continental Showcase" program from 1964 to mid-1966, I developed a love of Blasmusik that has remained with me ever since. I am a subscriber not only to the great burchi1 but also to all the others who post Egerlander Musikanten videos here. It remains a great thrill for me to see 'live' -- 50 years later -- the orchestra I loved so much listening to as a child. Little known fact: Milwaukee's only German-language radio announcer at the time, Herbert Wittke, a captured pilot of the Luftwaffe who somehow ended up in Milwaukee after the war, presented the German-language programs of WMIL beginning in 1948, continuing on WMIL (Milwaukee) and decades later on WYLO (New Berlin, Wisconsin). By the end of his career Herbert Wittke had become the longest-serving radio announcer in America. He was recognized for this at a radio industry event, as I recall. I am not certain exactly how many years he was on the air, but I believe it was more-than-50-years. On the air from noon-to-3pm on weekdays and longer on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, Herbert Wittke surely played every single Ernst Mosch recording 100s of times, starting from the very earliest days of the Egerlander Musikanten and continuing until long after Ernst Mosch had passed away.
Ernst Moschs Weiterentwicklung der böhmischen Blasmusik ist unerreicht. Noch in Jahrhunderten wird man ihn anerkennen, und zwar quer durch alle Musikgattungen.
Ernst Mosch Nach der USA-Tournee 1966 und namentlich in 1969 ff. kamen viele Neuzugänge und nachmals langjährige Musiker in das Orchester, leider musste kurze Zeit später jedoch auch der frühe Tod zweier beliebter Musiker betrauert werden, der des Flügelhornisten und Konzertmeisters Georg „Fischi“ Ernszt 1968, und der des Schlagzeugers Ferry Tagscherer 1973
