Klarinet Archive - Posting 000090.txt from 2001/11

From: Michael Webster <mwebster@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Augustin Duques
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:11:38 -0500

on 11/2/01 1:20 AM, Michael Bryant at michael@-----.uk wrote:

> A question has come in to me about recordings by Augustin Duques.
>
> Can any member of the list please supply or help to locate a copy of his
> recording of the Mozart Quintet K 581 on the US LP Stradivari STR 601
> also issued on cassette?
>
> I am aware of some privately owned early material (only partly identified)
> which may eventually have reached his widow, Emmy Lou Duques.
>
> He appears to have given the first known US broadcast of the Schumann
> Fantasy Pieces with a pianist whose first name was Vladimir,
> or Valdimir, second name not audible. Date uncertain?
>
> Does anyone know the whereabouts of Mr Duques' friends and colleagues
> Walter Lewis and Bill Bachman? Maybe I am too late.
>
> His NBC SO clarinet colleagues between 1937 and 1954 were Harold
> Freeman, Alfred Gallodoro, Louis Green, Georges Grisez, Louis Klein,
> Robert McGinnis, John Peper, Wallace Shapiro and Alexander Williams.
> He taught at the Juilliard and his students included Earl Thomas,
> (Charlotte SO, N. Carolina), Billy Kerr and Gene Kavadlo.
>
> I would be grateful for any contributions
> Thanks
> Mike Bryant
>
> Michael Bryant
>
> www.rosewoodpublications.co.uk
> www.codamusic.com/coda/fs_home.asp
> fax +44 (0) 20 8390 3236
>
>
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Hi Michael,

As a student of Harold Freeeman between 1954 and 1961, I purchased a copy of
that recording which I still have. My ex-wife is moving and she invited me
to go through the old LPS in Aug. It is one of the few I rescued for
sentiment's sake. It is probably in excellent condition.

Michael Webster

Michael Webster
Associate Professor of Clarinet and Ensembles
Rice University
Shepherd School of Music - MS 532
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251-1892
Tel: 713-348-3602
Fax: 713-838-0078
e-mail: mwebster@-----.edu
website: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~mwebster

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