Klarinet Archive - Posting 000194.txt from 2008/11

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Music dealers
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:29:31 -0500

At one time, some 30 years ago, there was a music seller in New York that
went under the name of McGinnis & Marx. The things they had were found
nowhere else, and no one could find anything in the store except for the
owner who was Joe Marx (McGinnis was his father in law but dead) a fount of
information. He was also a good oboe player but that is for another
posting.

Seeing the conversation between Michael Moors and Gary van Cott, I think
that Gary is now the McGinnish & Marx of contemporary times. He very rarely
says, "I don't have that."

Joe Marx is also dead now and we were very good friends, even though it was
not easy to be friends with him. But it was worth the effort to hear his
thousands of stories about this or that musician. He also played
Heckelphone whenever the Met need one for Salome or Elektra. He was also the
only many I ever met who kept both his wife and his mistress in the same
apartment in Manhattan.

At some later time, I will tell you the story of his playing oboe in the
Jerusalem police band.

Dan Leeson

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