handsoff Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 I was saddened to read of Richard Hickox's death. I trust that this off-topic post will be tolerated in view of his contribution to our musical life. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7745605.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Kemp Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 Very sorry to hear this sad news. I have an idea that he had been organist at High Wycombe parish church and also at St Margaret's Westminster but I may be mistaken. Malcolm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Treloar Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 According to the Telegraph he was an organ scholar at Queens' Cambridge. Given his age this would have been in about the mid 60s I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stanley Monkhouse Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 Richard was organ scholar at Queens' 1967-1970. I was at Queens 1969-1972 and sang under his baton in the Chapel choir, the College choral society and the Purcell society. He was indeed a man of great energy, great generosity and fun. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Ball Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 This is the most shocking news. Although I didn't know Hickox, we worked together in the 2001 Gloucester Three Choirs Festival, where he conducted Delius's Mass of Life. The energy and intellectual power he brought to TCF was always impressive; the way he managed to make a cohesive, passionate whole out of the Delius and its massive forces was an inspiration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msw Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Very sorry to hear this sad news. I have an idea that he had been organist at High Wycombe parish church and also at St Margaret's Westminster but I may be mistaken. Malcolm He was most definitely at St Margaret's Westminster. The Revd Trevor Beeson's "Window on Westminster" mentions Hickox leaving the post after many years of dedicated service, in order to pursue his conducting work. (Perhaps that explains the excellence of St Endellion Festivals - he combined all the finesse of his concert work with his already-considerable knowledge of church music to create something special and distinctive.) No doubt the RCO will note his passing: he was one of very few conductors to have FRCO amongst their achievements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolsey Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 ...he was one of very few conductors to have FRCO amongst their achievements. The following (among others) might beg to differ: Sir Richard Armstrong Stephen Barlow Benjamin Bayl Steuart Bedford Harry Bicket Ivor Bolton Paul Brough Nicholas Cleobury Laurence Cummings Meredith Davies Richard Farnes Roy Goodman David Hill Simon Joly Nicholas Kok Stephen Layton Ian C Shaw Paul Steinitz David Willcocks Sir Andrew Davis (ARCO) Sir Charles Groves (ARCO) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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