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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000045.txt from 2004/07

From: "Mel Beiman" <mbeiman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] reed maker in dry climate
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 23:43:47 -0400

Barbara,

Don and I had a long history in orchestra performance, mostly with the New
Jersey Symphony Orchestra. I had occasion about three years (?) ago to call
him in Albuquerque and he managed to pick up the phone to answer me.

He must have just had a major stroke, and was "waiting for them to come and
take [him] away." He was almost incoherent, so the conversation ended there.
I never heard about him again. I believe that Don was about 73 years old.

I only knew him as an adult. He was alone.

Sorry.

Mel
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Trautwein" <mzeztee@-----.edu>
To: <doublereed@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: [DR-L] reed maker in dry climate

> Oh, Mel,
>
> I was afraid that I would hear this. . . .Don was mentioned on the list
> a few years back as being ill and having given up his business but I
> never heard anything more. I wonder who would have details?
>
> I ask because he and I went to high school together. . . lived a couple
> of blocks away from me in Euclid, Ohio. . .a Cleveland suburb. Did you
> know him? As an adult he was SO different than he was as a high school
> kid. . .
>
> . . . .sigh. . . .
>
> Thanks . . ..
>
> b

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