Friday, November 15, 2024
I'm so sorry to learn of Brian's passing. I played horn alongside Brian In the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra during the 1965-66 school year. He was a senior (or post grad) and I was a freshman. For most of that year Brian played 2nd horn to Brad Warnaar, who went on to distinguish himself as a LA movie studio horn player, composer and orchestrator. I was in the horn section with Brian at the concert in Carnegie Hall in New York in February of 1966, and for a great many concerts besides, under the likes of conductors Thor Johnson and Joseph E. Maddy (Interlochen's founder, who passed away in April of 1966). Brian and I played at opposite ends of the horn section and were nearly three years apart in age -- which is several lightyears at that stage of life -- so I rarely had opportunity to interact with him. I always liked Brian, though. He was quiet and businesslike, but very personable. I continued to play horn off and on throughout my life, well into my senior years, finally hanging it up in 2012. I've often had occasion to wonder where Brian was and what he was doing. Now I know. I must say I'm amazed at his variety and breadth of interests. I feel honored to have known Brian and to have had opportunity to make music with him. -- Rev. Paul Birmingham, Protestant Chaplain, Ohio Veterans Home, Sandusky, Ohio (retired).
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