[Trombone-l] Otto Henry and Patrick McCarty

[Charles De Paolo]

Hi Keith et al,

What Jeff writes is pretty much what I know.  Mr. McCarty is still alive.  He was a student at the Eastman School in the early 1960's.  This is where he wrote his now famous bass trombone Sonata.  I will occasionally have a brief communication with him about once a year.  Verbose written communication is difficult owing to the extent of the paralysis injury.  

Regarding the Sonata: Unlike many similar concerto type works, it was conceived concurrently for solo with piano and solo with string ensemble.  Hence, the chicken and the egg occurred simultaneously.

By the way, McCarty wrote at least one other trombone quartet besides his Recitative & Fugue.  The other quartet is called Mode Moods.  It is a work comprised of seven short movements, each set in one of the standard church modes.  I played it a few times many years ago.  I do not have a score or set of parts.  Neither does Mr. McCarty if I recall correctly.  It's one of those early Ensemble Publications charts that never made it into print.  If anyone out there in Trombone Land happens to have a score or set of parts on hand, I'd love to have a copy so that I can make an official published edition.  

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeff Albert 
  To: Keith Marr 
  Cc: TROMBONE-L at server5.samford.edu 
  Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 12:15 PM
  Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Otto Henry and Patrick McCarty


  Patrick McCarty also wrote a trombone quartet, and he was my freshman music
  theory teacher at Loyola Univeristy New Orleans.  He was a trombonist and
  attended Eastman.  He taught at Loyola for quite some time, retiring in the
  early 1990's.  As far as I know he is still alive.  He was injured in a
  swimming accident, and severly paralyzed.  When I was in his class, he had a
  graduate assistant that wheeled him around and wrote on the board and played
  the piano excerpts.  He was a marvelous teacher.

  One of the listees (Robert Holland maybe?) publishes some of his works and
  would probably have more info.

  Jeff

  On 6/4/07, Keith Marr <Mail at gothicway.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
  >
  > >From time to time I play Otto Henry's Passacaglia and Fugue for Bass
  > Trombone and Piano and Patrick McCarty's Sonata for Bass Trombone and Piano.
  > I am unable to find very much about them.
  >
  > Does anyone know more about either and what else they wrote?
  >
  > Cheers!
  >
  > Keith in Bb/F/D
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