My dear old friend, John McCormickâthe man who happened to be Paul O'Dette's first classical guitar teacher, who introduced Paul to (and sold Paul his first) luteâpassed away suddenly on 30 March 2017. After his military service, he founded an early incarnation of a guitar society in Columbus, OH, operated a music store for some years, worked as a classical-music DJ (back when WCBE still played classical music), and was a guitar instructor at Denison University in Granville. In recent years, he remained a tireless researcher and collector of Italian art song with plucked-string accompaniment, occasionally receiving grant funding to support related travel. He had also been recently active typesetting several publications of guitar and lute music. I knew him as a generous, caring man, devoutly dedicated to family and friends, who loved profound conversations about profound music. John, I miss you. Visiting hours are at 1:00 and memorial service at 2:00 on Saturday, 8 April 2017 at Schoedinger, 6699 N. High St., Worthington, OH.
Eugene Eugene C. Braig IV Artistic Director Phone: 614-561-9204 e-mail: [1]eug...@columbusguitarsociety.org The Columbus Guitar Society Capital University, Conservatory of Music 1 College & Main Columbus, OH 43209 USA [2]http://columbusguitarsociety.org/ -- References 1. mailto:eug...@columbusguitarsociety.org 2. http://columbusguitarsociety.org/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
