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Longtime Morricone and film music fan/collector passed away last week at age 89. He was my mentor back in the late 1970's when I began to collect and his knowledge on Morricone, Spaghetti Westerns and John Barry was legendary. A former United Airlines pilot, Don began his amazing collection in the mid 1960's and was one of the friendliest people I have had the honor of knowing. His wife Lois survives him. Happy flight, Don !
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Oh no, not Don. The godfather of Morricone collectors.
What a top man. I got emails from him up till about xmas 2013 i think.
I know he loved his condo where he and Lois Moved to a few years ago.
Very interesting man. He was lucky enough to meet Ennio who gave him one of his awards.
Rest in peace Don my old buddy i shall miss your updates.
Thats made me sad.
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Sorry to hear this, I remember him as an early subscriber and supporter! lk
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Like a few people on here, im still reeling from this.
I remember the good old days - not that long ago, maybe ten years - where he used to post fairly regularly on the morricone board - gary and henry and Addie too - it wasnt the busiest board but a lot of knowledgable posters. And in morricones words above, Msv and their famous musicography was such a passion for Don and he was like an honourary member.
Like you guys said, Dons generosity with both time, information and cd favours was legendary. And as tom pointed out, he rarely if ever asked for anything in return. Mind you, he had everything!!! I know when i lost my job a few years ago, a few days later some compilation cds arrived with stuff i didnt have that he had painstakingly selected and done for me. A kind, kind man. A lesson for all of us, Even when someone was a bit of an a**hole, he summed it up with "we dont have much in common". That was about the most brutal he got!
I did an interview with him a few years ago an extract of which was published in mftm. Some of you may have read it but i will see if i can dig it out - seems appropriate to put it here to add to what people have said.
No second deaths, as they say - keep their memory alive!! !
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Thats the one henry. Well done for finding it and thank you for putting it up. When im at computer and not posting by phone, i will check to see if i can locate the first draft in case anything was trimmed from the published final print. We did have so much overrall that we didnt have room for everything. Such a lovely man. One of the first pioneers of morricone collecting, there from the beginning and known by his fellow collectors all around the world.
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I can echo the thoughts of Gary, Henry and the others who have posted here. Don was a fantastic help to me when I started to get interested in Morricones music. Back in 1981 much of his output was difficult to find and only available on vinyl. Through the help of Don (thanks to MSV) and another collector I met at the Manchester Film Fair I was able to hear and appreciate the tremendous variety of Morricones (and other Italian film composers) music. I was hooked!
Don even managed to get me the Maestro's signature when he met him at the GM/Fabriano party. Following this I corresponded with him for a number of years during which time his help and guidance was invaluable, and there was a constant flow of cassette tapes with rare and beautiful music. He was a true gentleman.
Rest in peace Don.
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Thanks addie. Im sad to say i never met Don but his character and kindness and boundless generosity poured out of every email he sent. It was also clear he adored Lois and was very content with both his life with her and their house move in the last few years, even though it meant sacrificing some space and passing on some of his vast collection. I know he looked forward to your visits.
Tell didier i wish i could offer more but he has my permission, if he wants to, to run that interview extract with Don for the Trunick memorial issue.
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Mar 23, 2015 - 3:47 AM
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finder4545
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Found the original color photos Don sent me from that label anniversary party. Don and Morricone:
I was at that party, the 20th Anniversary of General Music, in Fabriano, on Sept 8th 1985, and remember clearly the kind and special person of Trunick, his open smile.
Maybe the color photo comes from Ingo Curth or Sijbold Tonkens, very active with their cameras in that occasion. Some months later, on December number of Van De Ven’s magazine “Soundtrack! - Collector’s Quarterly”, appeared a dozen and half of b&w photos of that party, the first of which portraits just me with Morricone, reported by great friends Sergio Bassetti and Massimo Cardinaletti organizer. Someone filmed the meeting and a cassette was done, about 55 minutes, in memory of that moment. Too many now are missing! I remember clearly Don Trunick walking hand in hand with his wife, talking with Gordon McWee and discussing in English with Armando Trovajoli.
Cardinaletti told me that during the flight of his honeymoon the pilot of the plane had been just Don Trunick! And this had to have been happened a year before, as the less aged participant at the Anniversary in Fabriano was just… the first son of Cardinaletti, still in the cradle.
Great moments in our memory. I join all of us to embrace our friend Don, wherever he is.
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Mar 23, 2015 - 12:04 PM
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Morricone
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I was at that party, the 20th Anniversary of General Music, in Fabriano, on Sept 8th 1985, and remember clearly the kind and special person of Trunick, his open smile.
Maybe the color photo comes from Ingo Curth or Sijbold Tonkens, very active with their cameras in that occasion. Some months later, on December number of Van De Ven’s magazine “Soundtrack! - Collector’s Quarterly”, appeared a dozen and half of b&w photos of that party, the first of which portraits just me with Morricone, reported by great friends Sergio Bassetti and Massimo Cardinaletti organizer. Someone filmed the meeting and a cassette was done, about 55 minutes, in memory of that moment. Too many now are missing! I remember clearly Don Trunick walking hand in hand with his wife, talking with Gordon McWee and discussing in English with Armando Trovajoli.
Cardinaletti told me that during the flight of his honeymoon the pilot of the plane had been just Don Trunick! And this had to have been happened a year before, as the less aged participant at the Anniversary in Fabriano was just… the first son of Cardinaletti, still in the cradle.
Great moments in our memory. I join all of us to embrace our friend Don, wherever he is.
Thanks, I see our benefactor Gary Radnovich, who posted this, was also there, basing it on that article. Must have been quite a party. I do have those home movies of it but unedited it does go on.
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Mar 23, 2015 - 12:45 PM
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PatrickB
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Sad news, all the former MSV members, and a good number of the other Morricone collectors know his name, present early in these days of the beginning of the Eighties.
I am too young to would have been present in 1984 as a die-hard collector, but I remember pictures and comments. Nice to see them in colors ! I didn't meet him. He had his corner in MSV. I read it since 1987 and wrote frequently since 1998.
So, as co-chief editor of the on-line fanzine Maestro, I say that we will pay a tribute to Don in the ext Maestro, which yes, Addie, will be soon issued.
That is what I will propose to Didier.
Patrick
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Hi patrick,
Its good and fitting that Don should be remembered in Maestro!
Henry and gary, ive got a copy of that Fabriano party dvd too that Don did me - most interesting, seeing the composers, and Don strolling about in his shorts with drink in hand, looking like he was enjoying every second of being in such company.
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Don's choice of "loud" outfits (he loved Hawaiian shirts) always amused me. When we were in Morricone's home in Rome he wore that green and white track suit which really stood out ! I recall a flight from New York to Rome when we (and our wives) took a tour of Italy and for the entire flight Don and I talked about our Morricone vinyl collections. During that same trip we were able to visit Morricone and I presented him with a stack of obscure Argentine soundtrack editions of his scores and I don't think he spent more than 5 seconds looking them over !
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