Harold Bennett

US saxophone - flute player. Principal flutist for the Metropolitan Opera orchestra from 1944 until his retirement in 1965. For the next two years, he was first flutist of the National Symphony in Washington. He went on to play first flute in the Radio City Music Hall orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony, and, from 1940 to 1944, assistant first flute and piccolo in the Philadelphia Orchestra alongside his teacher, William Kincaid. Mr. Bennett also had an extensive teaching career, and joined the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music in 1962. Died of cardiac arrest Sept. 17, 1985, in Long Island, NY.