Composer Robert Starer tells of his experience as young harpist in the Palestine Orchestra in the 1940s: I sat behind harp, glanced at the most intricate harp part I had ever encountered, and looked with heavily beating heart at the conductor, Bernardino Molinari, a fine, experienced maestro.
המלחין רוברט סטארר מספר על חוויה שהייתה לו כנגן נבל צעיר בתזמורת הסימפונית הארץ ישראלית בשנות הארבעים "…I sat behind harp, glanced at the most intricate harp part I had ever encountered, and looked with heavily beating heart at the conductor, Bernardino Molinari, a fine, experienced maestro.