Klarinet Archive - Posting 000203.txt from 2008/11

From: Mike Wilson <fanosax@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music dealers
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:15:25 -0500

While not as colorful as Dan Leeson's anecdotes, there is a nice article
on Josef Marx in the JIDRS archives:
http://idrs.org/publications/journal2/jnl12/marx.html

Mike

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