[Trombone-l] Dave Wolpe

[Craig Parmerlee]

Very interesting, thank you.  If I read between the lines a little, it 
seems as if Dave's parents (or maybe grandparents) immigrated from 
Germany, Austria or a nearby country, and kept the original spelling of 
the family name.  But it would have sounded like "Volpi" to American 
ears.  Evidently Dave legally changed his family name to Volpi, and that 
sort of thing was not uncommon for people joining the military services 
soon after WWII.

I presume by then he was already publishing music under the name "Dave 
Wolpe" and he kept that as a (highly successful) pseudonym the rest of 
his life.  That also suggests I have been mispronouncing his name (by 
either spelling) all along.  Of course, his music is his legacy, much 
more than the chosen spelling of his name.

Can anybody shed any light on that?



On 11/8/2022 9:52 AM, bonemstr at america.net wrote:
> Yes.
> See:
> https://obituaries.neptunesociety.com/obituaries/altamonte-springs-fl/david-volpi-10983385 
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> On 2022-11-06 9:55 am, Craig Parmerlee via Trombone-l wrote:
>> There was a rumor floating around recently that Dave Wolpe had
>> passed.  I have not seen any confirmation of this.  Does anybody know
>> of his status?  I believe he would be around 86 years old now.



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