Klarinet Archive - Posting 000370.txt from 2001/11

From: Cindy Christensen <cindy@-----.de>
Subj: [kl] Re: John Denman
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 06:05:31 -0500

Sorry to hear this news. Denman was an excellent clarinetist.
There was an ad in a clarinet magazine years ago where Denman's
mouthpieces were being advertised and there was an excerpt of the first
few measures of the last movement of Brahm's 2nd Sonata with the text
"Are you happy with your mouthpiece? Buy a Denman, buy a Denman." Every
time I hear or think of that movement, I think of John Denman.
Cindy in Germany

On Friday, November 9, 2001, at 10:15 , klarinet-digest-
help@-----.org wrote:

> An Associated Press obituary published on Thursday=20
> (11/8) reports: "John Denman, a clarinetist who was most=20
> recently artistic adviser to the Tucson Symphony=20
> Orchestra's pops division, died Tuesday from=20
> complications of esophageal cancer. He was 68." Born=20
> in London, Denman "was a principal clarinetist for the=20
> orchestra for more than 20 years." He also played=20
> "principal clarinet with the London Symphony Orchestra=20
> and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra," and "taught=20
> music at Trinity College in England before coming to=20
> teach at the University of Arizona." He joined the Tucson=20
> Symphony Orchestra "in the late 1970s."

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