Klarinet Archive - Posting 000216.txt from 2006/02

From: =?us-ascii?Q?Magnus_Borjesson?= <magnus.borjesson@-----.com>
Subj: SV: [kl] Sad news
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:31:50 -0500

I have also a sad announcement. The swedish jazz-clarinetist Putte Wickman
died yesterday at the age of 81.
He was a great performer, I heard him at one of his concerts celebrating his
80:th birthday in 2004, and his playing was outstanding. Still with a
fantastic tone and so much inspiration.
Putte Wickman was (I believe) well known international and did occasionally
concerts and tours with several american jazzmusicians, for example Buddy de
Franco and Tony Scott. For many years he also toured i Sweden playing
concerts in churches with danish jazzviolinist Svend Asmundsen and Leif Asp,
Ivan Renliden, pianists. They played jazzstandards as well as "classical"
arrangements. He wasn?t religious, but liked to play in churches because of
the acoustics.
Putte Wickman died of cancer.

Magnus Borjesson
Sweden

"... ach, wenn wir nur clarinetti hatten! - sie glauben nicht was eine
sinfonie mit flauten, oboen und clarinetten einen herrlichen Effect macht!"

Mozart, i ett brev till fadern Leopold 1778

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Fran: Lelia Loban [mailto:lelialoban@-----.net]
Skickat: den 14 februari 2006 21:42
Till: klarinet@-----.org
Amne: [kl] Sad news

Joseph Wakeling wrote,
>I just came across the following in the Guardian's obituaries:
>Professor Sir Nicholas Shackleton
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1708225,00.html

That is sad news indeed. We corresponded off and on about antique
clarinets. I'm embarrassed to admit that until I read the obituary, I had
no idea who Nick Shackleton was, other than someone who clearly knew a lot
more than I did about vintage instruments. Last spring, we arranged to
trade photocopies of some old musical instrument manufacturers' catalogues.
I mailed him mine, but never heard from him again except for a thank-you
note and then a belated but gracious e-mail saying he hadn't forgotten.
Not knowing he was ill, I meant to wait a reasonable amount of time and
then pester him, but am glad now that I never got around to it, since
obviously he had more serious things on his mind.

How little we really know about each other from "meeting" in cyberspace. I
tend to assume that the things we don't know are the stuff of morbid
stories on the late night news broadcasts: the congenial correspondent who
turns out to be the friendly neighborhood axe murderer, or the persona of a
ten-year-old naif masking the reality of a forty-year-old whore who fronts
for Madame Spanky's Paddle Palace, etc.. I definitely don't expect to find
out that the nice guy who collects clarinets is a renowned scientist with
"Sir" in front of his name. R.I.P. --I'm very sorry to hear he's dead at
age 68. That's too young.

Lelia Loban

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