Klarinet Archive - Posting 000112.txt from 2009/04

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Clem Hutchinson
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:59:19 -0400

Danny,

As far as I know, in his professional career he was always known as Clement Hutchinson, never Clem.

We students always referred to him as "Hutch". As we got older and he called us, he would not say "This is Mr. Hutchinson....". He would would start saying "This is Clem...". Since we had always called him MR. Hutchinson, believe me, it was hard to start calling him Clem when we worked together, and I never really varied from Mr. Hutchinson, even then. He wanted us to call him Clem, but it always just seemed that Mr was what was really expected.

Well trained? Yes, he was Arey's top student at Eastman around '39 and as a senior when that big wave of clarinet students came in, he taught 30 of them 3 lessons a month and Arey gave them the fourth.

www.archive.org/details/AmericanWorksForSoloWinds

I found this recording of Arey online.

Kurt

-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net>
>Sent: Apr 13, 2009 9:36 PM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Clem Hutchinson
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>The thing that hurt Clem the most was his name. It gave the impression that
>he was a cowboy turd-kicker, despite the fact that he was a well-trained and
>serious clarinet player. He should have changed his name to Roger or Edward
>or Scott, but "Clem" was a poor name for a high-class clarinet professor.
>
>Dan Leeson
>
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