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Oct 8, 2008 - 2:24 PM
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Howard L
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Guy McKone, who passed away before the millennium turnover, was not only a connaiseur of vintage scores and musicals. He was also a wonderful verbalist. In fact, his writing was very inspirational even though one didn't necessarily share the interest for the actual topic. I'm sure Howard L can express this more eloquently than I - he wrote an entire cyber-play after he passed away, a kind of fictional "quest" for Guy's grave, I believe.
Ouch. Necrophilia is most certainly not one of my pastimes. It was more of an "In Search of Guy McKone" thing along the lines of "Guy, we hardly knew ye".
Suffice it to say that Guy McKone was film music appreciation personified. Usually, fiction comes out of real life experience. The extraordinary weekend in Detroit in the summer of 2000 turned "usual" upside-down and inside-out and all within barely a year of Guy's passing and the subsequent piece of 'fiction'.
That same weekend saw a cadre of FSMers hit it off very well with Mr. Goldsmith. Although I disagree with your assertion of false accusation, I nonetheless choose to retain fond memories of the other Guy (Tucker), such as when we shook hands upon the start of Jerry conducting Papillon. This occurred on Sunday afternoon and it was our 3rd joint attendance of the same concert at Symphony Hall. That handshake has proved a denouement, of sorts, that remains as vivid and joyful as another fond memory, that of Guy afterward urging me to give Jerry the copy of the play that Jerry had helped greatly to inspire. Jerry got it, who knows if it ever meant anything to him, but the smile on my face right now tells me it doesn't matter a hill o' beans.
Howard L and Jim Cleveland don't post much these days either. But that's for another topic.
There's a story in there (isn't there always a story) on my end. Will try to put something together in the very near future. Don't hold me to it, though.
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Howard, I'd love another e-copy of the play in question. It'd be actually kind of nice to see a website with all of the Templeton stories archived (as in, not on a message board).
Something like templeton.blogspot.com?
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Howard, your Guy McKone saga was one of my favorite reads of all time. No kidding! Wow, I remember all those guys. How time flies!
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I didn't know him well but here's a tribute to him in Spanish from another community he was part of: 
