The 87 members of the 1961-62 Eastman Philharmonia pose on-stage in the Eastman Theater with Howard Hanson and Frederick Fennell, the two appointed conductors who would direct their music-making during their three-month State Department-sponsored tour in the winter of 1961-62. Howard Hanson invited Frederick Fennell to accompany him on the tour as Associate Conductor, but it was the perception of many that Hanson slighted Fennell by curtailing the latter’s opportunities to conduct. The travel diary kept by bassoonist Richard Rodean (BA ’62, MA ’64) confirms the infrequency of Fennell’s occasions on the podium. Further of note, Mr. Rodean candidly recounts that on one occasion after a performance in Lvov (today Lviv, in the Ukraine) near the end of the tour, the Philharmonia members gave Fennell an ovation.