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Author: Mitch K.
Date: 2002-10-27 06:20
Does anyone know, and is willing to share, where I can find a bio of Leon Russianoff? I'm merely curious.
Thanks,
Mitch King
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-10-27 06:40
<i>The Clarinet</i>
Volume 18 Number 1 Nov/Dec 1990 (part 1)
Volume 18 Number 2 Feb/Mar 1991 (part 2)
also, there is a Russianoff interview by Lee Gibson in <i>The Clarinet</i> Volume 5 Number 3 Spring 1978...GBK
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Author: Tom Piercy
Date: 2002-10-27 11:36
You can also purchase Stephen Clark's doctoral dissertation on Leon:
Available from http://wwwlib.umi.com/dxweb/
LEON RUSSIANOFF: CLARINET PEDAGOGUE. CLARK, STEPHEN LEE, DMA.
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, 1983. 162 pp.
Order #: 8324875
Cost: $34
Tom Piercy
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Author: richard
Date: 2002-10-27 19:18
Trivia:
His wife, Penelope (Penny), a New York psychologist and psychotherapist, played a psychotherapist in the movie An Unmarried Woman, a few years ago.
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Author: Dan Oberlin
Date: 2002-10-27 19:52
Trivia question: when Penny herself was an unmarried woman (or at least before she married Leon), her last name was Polatschek. Was she related to Victor Polatschek? I seem to recall that she was a clarinetist.
Dan
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Author: Dan Oberlin
Date: 2002-10-29 22:50
GBK,
In one of the articles in The Clarinet (which you reference above) it is stated that
Leon married Penny Polatschek in 1966. Clearly, from the obit you referenced, that was not her maiden name. But it evidently was her name in 1966 (before her marriage to Leon). That she was his
student, and so a clarinetist, is clear from the intro to his method. I'm still wondering if she
was connected in any way to Victor Polatschek.
Dan
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-10-29 23:44
Dan...Yes...I had read the Russianoff article in <i>The Clarinet</i>
and did see that she was mentioned as Penny (Penelope) Polatschek.
I thought that finding the obituary would help clear up the question.
As you see, it was no help...GBK
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Author: Dan Oberlin
Date: 2002-10-30 10:34
Mark,
That's right. But the obit which GBK pointed out
eliminates the most obvious of the possible
connections.
Dan
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-10-30 11:21
Dan Oberlin wrote:
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> Mark,
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> That's right. But the obit which GBK pointed out
> eliminates the most obvious of the possible
> connections.
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> Dan
Not really. We don't know if she decided to use her mother's maiden name as her own, or whether or mother remarried and she decided to use her stepfather's name, or whatever.
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