Klarinet Archive - Posting 000201.txt from 2008/11

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music dealers
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:27:47 -0500

You have me at a loss. His mistress, one of many that he had over several
years, was an oboe student living with him at the time. She was a very good
player, and it was always a source of amazement to me to have both his wife
and his mistress helping out with the coffee and cake after we played things
at his apartment between 86th and 87th and between Broadway and Amsterdam.
Big building. Used in several films. It had a name. The Apthorp was at
78-79th but I don't remember the name of Joe's building. Big courtyard.

Every week we played chamber music at his place, and no matter what cockeyed
combination we had, Joe had a piece for it. And once, over a period of
perhaps 12 weeks, we did every Mozart piano concerto using a string quintet,
and minimal brass but no percussion. There just wasn't room for it. The
pianist was a very well-known guy and I can't remember his name.

The next story about Joe Marx is how he walked Stefan Wolpe across the broad
avenue near Lincoln Center. Wolpe had Parkinson's and could barely walk.
It took them some 10 minutes to get across the street, and I thought they
were both going to get killed.

Dan
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From: "Ed Wojtowicz" <ewoj@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Music dealers

>I would rather hear how he managed the wife and mistress! ;-)
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> On Nov 14, 2008, at 6:29 PM, Dan Leeson wrote:
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>> 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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