Doublereed Archive - Posting 000043.txt from 2004/11

From: Barbara Trautwein <mzeztee@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Bert Gassman
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:35:13 -0500

Mark Charette wrote:

> Forwarded with great sadness.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <dmugger1@-----.net>
> To: <charette@-----.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 9:27 PM
> Subject: Bert Gassman
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>> I just spoke to Dave Weiss. He sent me your address. Bert Gassman,
>> one of the great oboists of the past (and my teacher and colleague)
>> passed away Saturday night here in California. Bert was 93. Let our
>> world know that we have lost a great student of the oboe. (First
>> oboe of the Los Angeles Philharmonic about 20 years)
>> Don Muggeridge (retired oboist. 44 years in Los Angeles Philharmonic)
>>
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> My CLARINET teacher in 1948, who had been in the Cleveland orchestra
> when Bert Gassman was there, said that his was the most beautiful
> oboe tone he had ever heard!

Barbara

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