The Wheatley School Alumni Association Newsletter # 179-D - Special Edition - Appreciating Adam Abeshouse (1979)
An Award-Winning Wildcat is Ailing
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).”
Adam was one of the first people I met after moving from Westbury and Clarke HS to O.W. and Wheatley in the summer of '75. The Abeshouse's lived on the next street. I haven't seen him for decades but I'm praying for him. Even then he was a fantastic musician (he got me into Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Al DiMeola and a bunch of other great stuff). I'm not surprised that he's had a legendary career. Prayers for my old friend and neighbor.
Adam, If the unspoken recesses of my heart are any judge, you are deeply and widely loved, appreciated, and admired by scores of people worldwide who may have simply forgotten to tell you. I have never lost my deep affection for you despite the many quiet years. Our first area of common ground was music, but I quickly figured out that you are a truly special soul. I have not, and will not, forget what a rare gem of a person you are
All love and affection,
Brian (on behalf of so many more)