This came as quite a shock to me. John was one of my trading buddies.
He turned up many recordings of American Music which he shared with me.
His enthusiasm and generosity were substantial and his love of American
Music was boundless.
Obituary: John McGlinn, 55
Tuesday (2/17) on the Playbill Arts website, Robert Simonson
reports, 'John McGlinn, a conductor and musical archivist
who devoted himself to finding and recording the restored
scores of early works of the American musical theatre, was
found dead in his apartment on Feb. 14. It's believed the
cause of death was a heart attack. In 1987, he helped bring
to the public's attention the incredible discovery, in a
Seacaucus, NJ, warehouse, of the original versions of the
scores of many Broadway shows, written by the likes of Kern
and Gershwin. Many of these original versions had been
presumed lost. ... Mr. McGlinn's first album was a recording
of Gershwin overtures and dance music using their original
orchestrations. It was released by EMI in 1987. After that,
he made recordings of the complete scores (with original
orchestrations) for Show Boat, Anything Goes, Brigadoon,
Annie Get Your Gun, Kiss Me, Kate and Sitting Pretty, an
obscure show by Jerome Kern ... The recordings were exhaustive;
the Show Boat album was comprised of three discs and
three-and-a-half hours of music (including cut songs,
variants, revival music, film music and more). It is treasured
by fans of the groundbreaking Kern-Hammerstein show, which
is considered to be the launch of the modern American
musical.'
Karl
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