Klarinet Archive - Posting 000114.txt from 2001/11

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Augustin Duques
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 17:39:25 -0500

If you want personal information about Duques from men who knew and
played with him, Alex Williams lives just a few blocks from me in Los
Altos, CA, and Herb Blayman lives in Belen, NM. Both men always spoke
very highly of Duques (as did most clarinet players).

Dan Leeson

Michael Webster wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> 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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