Klarinet Archive - Posting 000113.txt from 2006/06

From: Edward Branham <ebb@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Obit: Roger Busdicker of Hal Leonard
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:16:47 -0400


The ashes of a lifelong musician are resting inside his
clarinet in a Minnesota cemetery. Roger Busdicker was
cremated after his death last week at the age of 88. His
brother decided that Busdicker's clarinet and its case
would make the most suitable container for the ashes,
which were buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Winona, the
Winona Daily News reported. Busdicker and his friends --
brothers Harold "Hal" and Everett "Leonard" Edstrom --
formed the Hal Leonard Band in the 1930s, adopting the
name because the Edstroms' father did not want them
using the family name. They toured for about 10 years.
In 1947, after the band broke up, Busdicker and Hal
Edstrom were directing high school bands while Everett
Edstrom opened a music store. The friends found that
their arrangements of popular music were in demand
across the country, so they started the Hal Leonard
Corp. -- which became the world's largest publisher of
sheet music and instructional materials.

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