The Wheatley
School Alumni Association Newsletter # 179-D - Special Edition - Appreciating
Adam Abeshouse (1979)
An
Award-Winning Wildcat is Ailing
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David Abeshouse (1975)
writes as follows: “My younger brother, Adam Abeshouse (Wheatley Class of
1979), is a world-renowned classical music recording engineer and producer
(winner of three Grammy Awards over the past quarter century). At
Wheatley, he was a violinist. In April 2024, he was diagnosed with a
fatal illness (bile duct cancer) that he is facing with great character and
strength. Recently, his doctors informed him that he has only several
weeks left to live.
On Friday,
September 27, 2024, several of his top-notch musician clients/friends
conceived and organized a tribute concert, performed at the state-of-the-art
recording studio he’d recently built on his home property in Westchester
County, NY. NPR was there to interview Adam and several of his coterie
of musicians. The link below features the NPR article that was
published -- and an audio piece that aired on the NPR radio station WNYC –
both on October 2, 2024.
This article (which you
can read and listen to via the link below) focuses on the concert in his
honor (which 70 of us attended).
Concert Honoring Adam Abeshouse
If you are interested in
more info about Adam's career, please see:
Adam Abeshouse - Abeshouse Productions
And there’s more info at
the Classical Recording Foundation (CRF) site – this is a charitable
organization that Adam founded more than 20 years ago to help fund recordings
with great artistic merit that were often overlooked or underfunded.
The New Yorker magazine said about CRF: “The Classical
Recording Foundation is devoted to the proposition that posterity is
despoiled when artists are denied the chance to record their own
interpretations of certain repertoire.”
Classical Recording Foundation ("CRF") Site
Several photos of Adam’s
new recording studio appear at the bottom of the home page of the CRF
website.
Adam is beloved by so
many. Our world will be diminished without him.
David Abeshouse, Wheatley
‘75
1979 - David
Zuckerberg - “My family moved to
the East Williston Union Free School District as I entered 6th grade. Our
guidance counselor at Willets Road gathered all the ‘new kids’ in his office,
and one of the first friends I made was Adam Abeshouse (1979).”
Art
Arthur Fredericks Engoron, Class of 1967