The composer and pianist Andrew Violette has died of a long-lasting cancer.
A student of the modernists Elliott Carter, Roger Sessions and Otto Luening, he looked to Bach as his supreme comfort. His orchestral works include (Dawn (1988); Fanfare (1992) and Music In 6 Parts (2000).
photo: Barbbara Nitke
The Mozart concerto due to be played three…
The Manhattan School of Music this morning quietly…
The tenor Ian Bostridge shocked Symphony Hall Birmingham…
The Theater an der Wien, back home after…
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Here’s more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFVMzYfh9X4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjPWph9vpFw
Something very different:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQlVtdaXrCA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYI2_M6_r4g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQSj4mLj5A0
He seems to have had some sort of conversion.
A genius pianist and composer, and a good friend and colleague for 45 years, he will be truly missed.
Wonderful composer, wonderful friend, to the elements be free. We still have your music.