Klarinet Archive - Posting 000558.txt from 2003/09

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Jack Brymer
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:20:40 -0400

Good!

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
Subject: Re: [kl] Jack Brymer

Matthew Lloyd wrote:
> Hacker is dead too?

NOOOOOOOOO!! I mesread a message. He is alive and well.

Dan

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
> Sent: 18 September 2003 14:27
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Jack Brymer
>
> Michael Bryant wrote:
>
>>The Guardian newspaper published an obituary today,
>>including a tribute by Alan Hacker.
>>
>>MB
>>
>>Michael Bryant
>>Tel & fax +44 (0) 20 8390 3236
>
>
> It is clearly a bad time for great English clarinet players.
>
> I never met Alan Hacker though I was advised that he had some serious
> physical problems. His edition of the K. 622 incorporating basset
notes
> was very thoughtfully done and he made a substantial contribution to
> clarinet history.
>
> Should anyone on this list ever play the first basset horn part of the

> Mozart Requiem in the Duncan Druce completion, you will find one
section
>
> to be a veritable basset horn concerto. It is the Benedictus and the
> part was especially written for Hacker.
>
> Because I know so little about him, I am anxious to read a responsible

> obituary of Hacker.
>
> Dan Leeson
>

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