Re: [Hornlist] Carlberg Jones
And I well remember playing trios with Carlberg. I pulled out the "famous" trio by the "unknown" Polish composer, Trebor Wokc Id, we played it, and he then said, with a smile on his face, "That sounds very much like something Bob Dickow would write." Of course he was correct, as he was with so many things. -Original Message- From: horn-boun...@memphis.edu [mailto:horn-boun...@memphis.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Dickow Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 1:22 AM To: 'The Horn List' Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Carlberg Jones This is sad news. He was a great person and superior horn player. Carlberg stopped off to visit me here in Moscow, Idaho from time to time. On his last visit we enjoyed setting up in our town square to play violin duets on our horns. We would take turns naming the key to transpose each duet, and tried to trip each other up by announcing the most outrageous keys we could dream up. And on the visit before that, he showed up to do a little playing, but he arrived without his horn, thinking that I surely had more than one. (I'm a one-horn guy). But of course he had his recorder and a stack of recorder music in the trunk of his car. So, we stayed up until 4:00 AM playing recorder duets. Bob Dickow Lionel Hampton School of Music -Original Message- From: horn-boun...@memphis.edu [mailto:horn-boun...@memphis.edu] On Behalf Of David Goldberg Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 8:13 AM To: The Horn List Subject: [Hornlist] Carlberg Jones Our traveling friend, Carlberg Jones, passed away yesterday at his home in Aquascalientes Mexico. He was diagnosed with cancer last fall, source unknown. With chemo treatments, he took it bravely and survived fairly well until about two weeks ago when he was suddenly and severely disabled. His close friends from the Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra took great, around-the-clock care of him until the end. Those of us whom he visited as he drove around the USA will miss the intensive playing sessions, his jovial companionship and helpful attitude. The horn group will miss his dry humor and his expertise in numerous areas of our passion - music theory in general, horn playing technique, horn construction, repair. R.I.P. David G. ___ post: horn@memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/dickow%40uidaho.edu ___ post: horn@memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/treicher%40cooley.com This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. If you are the intended recipient, please be advised that the content of this message is subject to access, review and disclosure by the sender's Email System Administrator. IRS Circular 230 disclosure: To ensure compliance with requirements imposed by the IRS, we inform you that any U.S. federal tax advice contained in this communication (including any attachment) is not intended or written by us to be used, and cannot be used, (i) by any taxpayer for the purpose of avoiding tax penalties under the Internal Revenue Code or (ii) for promoting, marketing or recommending to another party any transaction or matter addressed herein. ___ post: horn@memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Carlberg Jones
On Apr 18, 2010, at 10:00 AM, horn-requ...@memphis.edu wrote: > Message: 8 > Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:22:17 -0700 > From: "Robert Dickow" > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Carlberg Jones > To: "'The Horn List'" > Message-ID: <004701caded0$45a3b180$d0eb14...@edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > This is sad news. He was a great person and superior horn player. > Carlberg > stopped off to visit me here in Moscow, Idaho from time to time. On > his last > visit we enjoyed setting up in our town square to play violin duets > on our > horns. We would take turns naming the key to transpose each duet, > and tried > to trip each other up by announcing the most outrageous keys we > could dream > up. And on the visit before that, he showed up to do a little > playing, but > he arrived without his horn, thinking that I surely had more than > one. (I'm > a one-horn guy). But of course he had his recorder and a stack of > recorder > music in the trunk of his car. So, we stayed up until 4:00 AM playing > recorder duets. > > Bob Dickow > Lionel Hampton School of Music Hi Bob and all, Bob and I met Carlberg when we were in jr. high school via the California Youth Symphony. He played trombone then, but was experimenting with the horn and one of his best friends, Brian Boortz (where are you Brian?), was a horn player as well. For some reason, Carlberg took a liking to me, the young upstart, and started to give me all sorts of advice about music and life, including some very interesting stuff about girls. I think it was the fact that I got his humor and could hang with him on that was one reason we became good friends. And for me, destined to become first horn in my freshman year in high school, he was a great entry for me to hang with the "older" kids who occupied the other principal chairs. Fast company for a naive young suburbanite. As the years went on I ran across him many times around the Bay Area as we crossed paths on gigs and at parties. He was, as one could say fondly, a real "character," and he had become a excellent player. He also liked to play darts and talk politics at the same time. I think the holes in the wall of his study had something to do with that- I always hit the target. ;-) Shot some pool as well. And yes, he kept a stash. But whatever we did always had an element of that good old dry, surreal sense of humor that made "visits with Carlberg" so much fun- sidesplitting fun. When I saw him in Kalamazoo I had some concerns about his health, mental and physical. I hadn't seen him in years and he seemed almost incoherent at times. Too much of the devil weed, I thought. But he managed to score a room key for me in the dorms for the last night when my travel plans were upset by some airline thing and i was stranded. In return, I was to forward some mail or something for him when I got a chance. Whatever. Friends. A few years ago, when i got my web video thing up and running, he was the first person I actually had contact with. He was in Mexico and we were able to get a connection going. Naturally, the first thing we tried to do was play duets, but the delay, on both ends, made that impossible- but not before we had a few laughs with it. Later he dropped by San Jose on one of his trips and stayed with me for a few days and we made up for the "delays." When we were young, as Bob has shown, it was traditional for any horn players, especially those in our Youth Orchestra, to play duets (or more) at the drop of a hat. Whenever we got together that is the first thing we would do. Duets, trios and quartets on the street in SF started for me in high school, and at parties, sober or not, the horns came out. I have duet books and other multiple horn stuff that goes back to Jr. High, which was a long time ago. Recently, when a friend of mine from that era remarried, Bob D., the Bob that was getting married and Tom Reicher, another one of the old gang who posts here sometimes and I put the old group back together for quartets at the reception. Yes, horn quartets at the reception and everyone loved it. Almost 50 years of history there. So, Carlberg, we salute you, as a fallen soldier in the ranks of horn players and human beings who found friendship and inspiration for our lives with music and the camaraderie that came with it. You brought your love of music to many people. May you find a duet to play, forever more. I'm looking for a dart, right now Sincerely, Wendell For info about my book, DVDs, live video chat horn lessons and my new Summer Camp for horns only see my web site at www.wendellworld.com ___ post: horn@memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Carlberg Jones
This is sad news. He was a great person and superior horn player. Carlberg stopped off to visit me here in Moscow, Idaho from time to time. On his last visit we enjoyed setting up in our town square to play violin duets on our horns. We would take turns naming the key to transpose each duet, and tried to trip each other up by announcing the most outrageous keys we could dream up. And on the visit before that, he showed up to do a little playing, but he arrived without his horn, thinking that I surely had more than one. (I'm a one-horn guy). But of course he had his recorder and a stack of recorder music in the trunk of his car. So, we stayed up until 4:00 AM playing recorder duets. Bob Dickow Lionel Hampton School of Music -Original Message- From: horn-boun...@memphis.edu [mailto:horn-boun...@memphis.edu] On Behalf Of David Goldberg Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 8:13 AM To: The Horn List Subject: [Hornlist] Carlberg Jones Our traveling friend, Carlberg Jones, passed away yesterday at his home in Aquascalientes Mexico. He was diagnosed with cancer last fall, source unknown. With chemo treatments, he took it bravely and survived fairly well until about two weeks ago when he was suddenly and severely disabled. His close friends from the Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra took great, around-the-clock care of him until the end. Those of us whom he visited as he drove around the USA will miss the intensive playing sessions, his jovial companionship and helpful attitude. The horn group will miss his dry humor and his expertise in numerous areas of our passion - music theory in general, horn playing technique, horn construction, repair. R.I.P. David G. ___ post: horn@memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/dickow%40uidaho.edu ___ post: horn@memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Carlberg Jones
Damn. I am really sorry that I did not know anything about his terminal illness before reading his obit today. We had been in sporadic touch over many years and through several life changes on both of our sides but I had not noticed that the gap since I last heard from him had imperceptibly widened past the usual. I was a student at the Manhattan School of Music prep-division in 1967/68 when I met Carlberg who was assigned to be my horn teacher. You have to understand that I say it with the deepest affection when I describe him as odd. As it happened, I most readily responded, in those days and now, to personalities that veered off from or openly rebelled against the norm, so we were a good fit. He was living on Fourth Avenue, which is a stretch in Greenwich Village of what is called Madison Ave. uptown and was still at that point the nexus of the used-book trade in NYC. This exotic locale only added to my adolescent excitement on the days when I would take the L.I.R.R. into town on Saturdays for lessons with him. I probably only had a couple of dozen lessons with him at that time, but I remember well his intensity when he explained or showed me some aspect of horn technique. My previous teachers, Art Goldstein and Arthur Berv had obviously made their reputation as players and their status as teachers was high, but this was probably my first prolonged exposure to someone not all that much older that myself who was actively involved in the freelance world. I think that I learned as much from him as a person (role-model) as I did as a teacher, though I suppose that by saying that I am taking a misguidedly narrow view of what I am calling teacher. When I entered the college level Bachelor's degree course at MSM the next year, I happened to end up becoming a fellow student of Clare Van Norman with Carlberg which ensured that our paths crossed often in the cramped confines on East 105th Street (and later Claremont Ave.). I shared his excitement when he told me that he would be Van Norman's assistant on the production of Valkyrie at the Met and envied him for getting to play in the "big kids" orchestra while I toiled in lowly brass ensembles and orchestral repertoire classes. I don't recall exactly when he left NYC and I don't think I ever knew why (It was rumored that he was offered a position at the Met, that was withdrawn after he started negotiating his terms with management, but I have no idea of the truth of this), but I next heard from him when he was out in Colorado (Ft. Collins, I believe, but maybe Boulder - I was in fairly frequent communication with Burt Hardin, too, and I could easily have their locations mentally fused). I think it was through this list that I discovered, a number of years later, that he had settled down in Mexico and we continued our sporadic exchanges, frequently spurred by list chatter. Occasionally I would hear from him when he was in need of something that was not easily available in Aguascalientes, sometimes it was just a personal response to some inanity that I has posted to the list, but I was always glad to be reminded of his spindly off-kilter presence, had been so impressed on me back when. He shared some wonderful photos with me of his home, bare-boned that it was, that I hope I can dig up in remembrance of him. My world feels diminished with his loss, but I want to share my memories and affection for him with my friends on this list as a way of saying that this loss is more than balanced by what I absorbed from him as a friend and teacher over the 4 decades since we met. Peter Hirsch ___ post: horn@memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Carlberg Jones
Alas, Carlberg will be missed. He was multi-talented. Regards ___ post: horn@memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
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To all, Wendy and I spent many a day and night with Carlberg here in Oregon while he traveled through, and had great times playing duos and even a midnight Christmas eve service (horn trios) one year. We will miss his great wit and humor. Dave ___ post: horn@memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Carlberg Jones
I'll be just about everyone on this list has had a pleasant contact with Carlberg at one time or another. At his own expense he shipped me a container of his "special recipe" tuning slide lube. He will certainly be missed. R.I.P. dear friend, Carlberg. Valerie Wells ___ post: horn@memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Carlberg Jones
David, just realized that you were the first to share the sad news. Thanks for the informaiton. -Original Message- From: horn-boun...@memphis.edu [mailto:horn-boun...@memphis.edu] On Behalf Of David Goldberg Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 10:13 AM To: The Horn List Subject: [Hornlist] Carlberg Jones Our traveling friend, Carlberg Jones, passed away yesterday at his home in Aquascalientes Mexico. He was diagnosed with cancer last fall, source unknown. With chemo treatments, he took it bravely and survived fairly well until about two weeks ago when he was suddenly and severely disabled. His close friends from the Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra took great, around-the-clock care of him until the end. Those of us whom he visited as he drove around the USA will miss the intensive playing sessions, his jovial companionship and helpful attitude. The horn group will miss his dry humor and his expertise in numerous areas of our passion - music theory in general, horn playing technique, horn construction, repair. R.I.P. David G. ___ post: horn@memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/bgross%40airmail.ne t ___ post: horn@memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Carlberg Jones
Thank you for sharing this sad news. I was very fortunate last year to meet Carlberg last year on his trip north and spent a most pleasant couple of hours playing duets with him. A really wonderful time. On Apr 17, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Lawrence Yates wrote: > I am shocked and very saddened to hear this. Although I never met > him in > person, we had several conversations by e-mail both on list and > privately. > > Lawrence. > > On 17 April 2010 16:12, David Goldberg wrote: > >> Our traveling friend, Carlberg Jones, passed away yesterday at his >> home >> in Aquascalientes Mexico. He was diagnosed with cancer last fall, >> source unknown. With chemo treatments, he took it bravely and >> survived >> fairly well until about two weeks ago when he was suddenly and >> severely >> disabled. His close friends from the Aguascalientes Symphony >> Orchestra >> took great, around-the-clock care of him until the end. >> >> Those of us whom he visited as he drove around the USA will miss the >> intensive playing sessions, his jovial companionship and helpful >> attitude. The horn group will miss his dry humor and his expertise >> in >> numerous areas of our passion - music theory in general, horn playing >> technique, horn construction, repair. >> >> R.I.P. >> >> David G. >> >> ___ >> post: horn@memphis.edu >> unsubscribe or set options at >> https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/yateslawrence%40googlemail.com >> > > > > -- > Lawrenceyates.co.uk > ___ > post: horn@memphis.edu > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/bgross%40airmail.net ___ post: horn@memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Carlberg Jones
I am so very sad to hear of Carlberg's passing. May he rest in peace. John Kowalchuk would tell some tales to me and "list lurker" Bob Losin about Carlberg's visit to Ontario to visit John. I met Carlberg and we shared a meal at the Kalamazoo symposium in 2001. He was an interesting man and very intelligent. Walt Lewis Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Lawrence Yates Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:41:24 To: The Horn List Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Carlberg Jones I am shocked and very saddened to hear this. Although I never met him in person, we had several conversations by e-mail both on list and privately. Lawrence. On 17 April 2010 16:12, David Goldberg wrote: > Our traveling friend, Carlberg Jones, passed away yesterday at his home > in Aquascalientes Mexico. He was diagnosed with cancer last fall, > source unknown. With chemo treatments, he took it bravely and survived > fairly well until about two weeks ago when he was suddenly and severely > disabled. His close friends from the Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra > took great, around-the-clock care of him until the end. > > Those of us whom he visited as he drove around the USA will miss the > intensive playing sessions, his jovial companionship and helpful > attitude. The horn group will miss his dry humor and his expertise in > numerous areas of our passion - music theory in general, horn playing > technique, horn construction, repair. > > R.I.P. > > David G. > > ___ > post: horn@memphis.edu > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/yateslawrence%40googlemail.com > -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk ___ post: horn@memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/lewhorn9%40yahoo.com ___ post: horn@memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Carlberg Jones
I am shocked and very saddened to hear this. Although I never met him in person, we had several conversations by e-mail both on list and privately. Lawrence. On 17 April 2010 16:12, David Goldberg wrote: > Our traveling friend, Carlberg Jones, passed away yesterday at his home > in Aquascalientes Mexico. He was diagnosed with cancer last fall, > source unknown. With chemo treatments, he took it bravely and survived > fairly well until about two weeks ago when he was suddenly and severely > disabled. His close friends from the Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra > took great, around-the-clock care of him until the end. > > Those of us whom he visited as he drove around the USA will miss the > intensive playing sessions, his jovial companionship and helpful > attitude. The horn group will miss his dry humor and his expertise in > numerous areas of our passion - music theory in general, horn playing > technique, horn construction, repair. > > R.I.P. > > David G. > > ___ > post: horn@memphis.edu > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/yateslawrence%40googlemail.com > -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk ___ post: horn@memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
[Hornlist] Carlberg Jones
Our traveling friend, Carlberg Jones, passed away yesterday at his home in Aquascalientes Mexico. He was diagnosed with cancer last fall, source unknown. With chemo treatments, he took it bravely and survived fairly well until about two weeks ago when he was suddenly and severely disabled. His close friends from the Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra took great, around-the-clock care of him until the end. Those of us whom he visited as he drove around the USA will miss the intensive playing sessions, his jovial companionship and helpful attitude. The horn group will miss his dry humor and his expertise in numerous areas of our passion - music theory in general, horn playing technique, horn construction, repair. R.I.P. David G. ___ post: horn@memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
