Tragedy: British composer dies in NY house fire

Tragedy: British composer dies in NY house fire

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norman lebrecht

May 01, 2015

Ronald Senator, who achieved widespread recognition for a 1986 Holocaust Requiem, has died with his wife, Miriam Brickman, in a New York house fire. Ronald was 89.

A student of Egon Wellesz at Oxford, he cut a large figure on the London scene in the 1980s.

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Comments

  • Sara Nathan says:

    how dreadful! Such a lovely couple. I remember his “Kaddish for Terezin” being performed at Canterbury Cathedral with Hugo Gryn as narrator

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