Klarinet Archive - Posting 001089.txt from 2000/07

From: "Tony Pay" <tony_pay@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] teachers of...
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 07:48:58 -0400

>From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>

>Recordings can be unfair, unrepresentative and misleading
>For example Thurston left very few recordings.
>He hated making recordings, but he was a giant-killer in the concert >hall
>or recital room. His best, the Bliss Quintet, has not yet been
>released complete on CD.

I remember having a conversation around 20 years or so ago with Thea King,
who was of course married to Jack Thurston, about his recordings -or the
lack of them. In fact, she reminded me of the conversation quite recently
on the phone, to our mutual amusement.

There are a number of recordings of Thurston, but Thea always says that he
wasn't happy with them, so she doesn't want to release them.

I made the point that I'm not happy with *my* recordings *either*, so why
should *he* get special treatment?!

To which Thea had replied, "Well, he should because he was *my husband*!

Tony
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