For a link to the news articles that I referred to:
http://www.slackdavis.com/news_article.php/news_id/argval/732/argname/back_link/argval/index
http://www.adn.com/obituaries/story/5332509p-5270541c.html ------------------------------
message: 17 date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 01:06:39 -0700 from: "rjackallen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> subject: Re: [Hornlist] Cutiss Blake follow up
I'm sorry to hear that Curtiss has died. He wrote a lot of music including the State Anthem. I got to know him when I lived in Anchorage from 1982 to 1985. There were several hornists that met periodically to play at someones house, and Curtiss sometimes joined the group. There were other opportunities to play (Symphony, Band, and shows), but he was always too busy. For what it's worth, I also remember that he had a very young daughter at the time and she attracted the attention of my very young step-son.
Jack Allen
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Hirsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [Hornlist] Cutiss Blake follow up
Having forwarded information giving directions to the Curtiss Blake collection of horn recordings housed at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, I misplaced the link. When I did a MetaCrawler search a couple of days later to try to find the collection, I found it and I also saw a few links to newspaper articles in the Alaskan press about Blake. When I went to these sites, I was shocked to see that Curtiss, his wife and one of their two daughters died when the four-seater plane that he was piloting crashed back in June of this year. I never had any direct contact with Curtiss, but I was profoundly affected by the knowledge that there was at least one person out there that shared my fascination with hearing all that can be done on horn through casting as wide a net as possible as a collector of recordings of what we all know to be (at least potentially) the most beautiful, spine tingling, sublime (and so on) producer of sound.I'm sorry that I never tracked him down while there was still time to do so, but maybe there is someone on the list reading this that did know him who might want to share something about this obviously unique person. I don't even know if he played horn himself. I have read that he taught music up in Alaska and composed music of some sort, but I know little beyond that.
Carpe Diem,
Peter Hirsch
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