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Author Topic: Alun Hoddinott (1929 - 2008)  (Read 118 times)
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« on: 20:02:56, 12-03-2008 »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7292217.stm
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« Reply #1 on: 21:38:11, 12-03-2008 »

Cheers George. Very sad. Imho a humane composer whose best work was brilliant and was infallibly insincere.I think his 'Welsh Dances'(surviving mangling by David Stone) first suggested a sense of contemporary harmony to me as a kid.He battled with the bottle, but/ and had a Bartok-Sinatraesque
working view`of the night, which hopefully afforded him some assurance in his`passing.
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« Reply #2 on: 22:44:32, 12-03-2008 »

Not as well known as some of his music deserves, perhaps; born at the wrong time so that he was in the shadow of very big composers as a youngster, and overtaken by musical fashion by the time he'd reached full maturity. Possibly staying in Wales created something of a 'big fish in a small pond' syndrome, too, very much along the lines of Daniel Jones and William Matthias: and, like them, he was a composer of symphonies: in his case even when most other British composers (PMD excepted) had long since given up on them.  I've been surprised over the past couple of years when coming upon his music with an innocent ear on R3 just how well crafted much of it is: many of the works that I picked up on LP in the 70s and 80s made less of an impression. There's not a huge amount in the catalogue, but Nimbus and Lyrita have a few releases between them, often subsidised by the Welsh Arts Council.

R.I.P.
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« Reply #3 on: 22:50:09, 12-03-2008 »

Can't say I liked his music, but there's very little doubting his lifetime's dedication and commitment to composing, music education, and untiring work towards promoting the music of Wales and Welsh composers.

R.I.P
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