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There were two sons. [9] She died of cancer in 2011. In later years his partner was the poet Wendy Mulford, with whom he bought a cottage on Papa Westray, the northern-most of the Orkney Islands. [10] Crosse died on 21 November 2021, at the age of 83.
Nov 24, 2021 · Gordon in fact met his wife Elizabeth Bunch in the porch of Orford Church during an Aldeburgh Festival. Her parents had retired to a cottage in nearby Walberswick, and Gordon and Elizabeth bought a rambling house in Wenhaston, near Blythburgh.
Dec 23, 2021 · Recollections of Gordon Crosse. Dec 23, 2021 | Features. Following on from John Turner’s comprehensive tribute to his long-standing friend Gordon Crosse, Andrew Burn recalls how Crosse influenced and guided him at a crucial point during his teens. Gordon Crosse was a huge influence on me when I was in my mid-teens growing up in Birmingham and ...
Born December 1 1937; died November 21, 2021. Peter Dickinson remembers a fellow composer - whose music he also recorded - and points listeners to some recordings of key works. Gordon Crosse made prominent headlines in British music from the mid-1960s through the 1980s. He was widely considered to be one of the most significant composers of a ...
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Dec 28, 2021 · By Nicolas Quiroga. (Credit: Marc Yeats 2019) English composer Gordon Crosse has passed away on Nov. 21, 2021. He was 84. Born on December 1, 1937 in the industrial town of Bury, near Manchester, Crosse’s musical education as a child was sporadic. However, when he was 12-years-old, as a student at Cheadle Hulme School, he began to improvise ...
Feb 18, 2022 · Gordon Crosse was born in Bury, then in Lancashire, on December 1 1937, the elder of two children of Percy Crosse, who worked at the Midland Bank, and his wife Marie (née Postlethwaite)....
Nov 24, 2021 · Nov 24, 2021 | Features. John Turner’s obituary to Gordon Crosse who died on 21 November 2021 makes reference to his third Elergy, Ad Patrem, which was composed in 2009 in memory of his adored father. Ad Patrem is as yet unperformed and we hope that by publishing the composers own notes on this work it might inspire a live performance in the ...
