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Bramwell Tovey, Award-Winning Conductor and Composer, Dies at 69
Bramwell Tovey, the London-born composer and conductor who’s been the principal conductor and artistic director of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra since 2018, has died.
Tovey died Tuesday (July 12) at his Barrington home surrounded by his family, one day after his 69th birthday, the orchestra said in a statement Wednesday.
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Tovey was diagnosed with a form of sarcoma in May 2019 and underwent surgery at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in June 2021 that briefly left him cancer-free, the statement said. The cancer returned in January.
“We are all heartbroken,” orchestra Executive Director David Beauchesne said. “Bramwell Tovey was a dear friend and colleague, and a person of uncommon ability, warmth, humor, sincerity and kindness. The youngest student and most revered guest artist received the same level of his care and attention.”
Tovey, a tuba and piano player who won Grammy and Juno awards, played in Salvation Army bands early in his musical career, according to the orchestra.
He developed a friendship with Leonard Bernstein that started in 1986 when — according to a biography on Tovey’s website — Tovey was as a last-minute substitute at the opening night of the Londo
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Bramwell Tovey
The following article was published in the comment pages of the Vancouver Sun in 2010. I made these remarks at a public meeting of the Vancouver School Board (VSB) in April 2010, shortly after the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. In a cost-cutting measure, VSB had proposed eliminating band and orchestra programs in schools under their control. Sensibly, in 2010 VSB decided not to go ahead with the proposed cuts.
Yesterday (Tuesday 8th April 2014) I heard that there was another proposal by VSB to cut the same programs. Since the arguments are exactly the same as last time I thought it apposite to reprint the original 2010 article.
There is one major difference between 2010 and 2014. Now, the VSO has its own school, VSOSchoolofMusic.ca with over 1000 pupils, and our VSO Connects program running in every major school district in the Lower Mainland, touching the lives of thousands of students. Our involvement in music education has exponentially increased since 2010 and we are very concerned indeed about VSB’s latest proposal, which we consider potentially calamitous. We are coordinating our public strategy with several other organizations, but meantime, here’s why we encouraged VSB to withdraw the proposal in 2010.
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