My friend Seymour "Red" Press died yesterday. Although to call him a friend doesn't really describe what he meant to my husband K and me. Red was a longtime musical contractor and K, a trumpet player, met him when Red hired him to play in the orchestra for Sophisticated Ladies. But over the next 40 years, the relationship between them deepened into a kind of loving father-son bond such that whenever we made plans to …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 04:13PM on October 25, 2022