Klarinet Archive - Posting 000137.txt from 2010/08

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Death of Leon Breeden
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:56:13 -0400

When David Breeden, the late principal clarinet with the SF Symphony, died five years ago, I went to his memorial service. While there I chatted with a few people who had known David particularly well, and one of them told me that David's father, Leon Breeden would be unlikely to live much longer, not that he was ill, but because of the grief that he sustained with David's death.

Leon Breeden was a clarinetist and the director of jazz studies at the University of North Texas (which is where David obtained his undergraduate degree, I believe), and in Saturday's NY Times, Leon's death at the age of 88 was reported.

See: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/arts/music/14breeden.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=leon%20breeden&st=cse

Dan Leeson
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