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16-Mar-2018
Stanley Darrow (1935-2018), New Jersey – USAby Rob Howard |
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 Stanley Darrow, one of America’s most devoted accordion luminaries, passed away on March 13th at the age of 83.Picture above: Joanna and Stanley Darrow. Stanley Darrow, from Camden, New Jersey, began playing the accordion at the age of 16. “My grandfather, who didn’t play himself, encouraged me and thought I would enjoy it,” he said. He studied at New York City College of Music, Combs College, PA, Neupauer Conservatory of Music, PA, and the Hohner Konservatorium in Trossigen, Germany, and enjoyed a lifetime of playing the accordion in concerts and teaching legions of children and adults at his studio. In 1952 he founded the long established Acme Accordion School, Westmont, New Jersey, where thousands of children and adults of all ages studied the accordion with Stanley Darrow and Joanna Arnold Darrow. Stanley Darrow was a member of the Accordion Teachers' Association of New Jersey, the American Accordionists' Association (AAA), and was an active board member of the Accordionists & Teachers Guild, International (ATG) and the American Accordion Musicological Society. With his interest in contemporary accordion music, he was the first to release an all contemporary LP of all original accordion music in 1965. He was founder-director of the Westmont Philharmonia Accordion Orchestra (1960), the Delaware Accordion Club, and also organized the annual King of Prussia festivals in Philadelphia, involving many accordionists, and was very well liked and respected by all who knew him. Obituary and Funeral information at: StanleyDarrow.pdf |
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