On Apr 18, 2010, at 10:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Message: 8 > Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:22:17 -0700 > From: "Robert Dickow" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Carlberg Jones > To: "'The Horn List'" <[email protected]> > 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: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
