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Re: Anybody heard of Malcolm Forsythe?

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Subject: Re: Anybody heard of Malcolm Forsythe?
From: Larry White <eljaywhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 23:07:09 -0700
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Last I heard of Malcolm Forsythe, he was a professor teaching in Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada. I am not sure if he is still there now. He also was very much
involved with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.

Larry White
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Rolf Miezitis wrote:

> Fellow listees,
>
> For years now, I have been trying to trace a piece that I had partially
> recorded off the radio for Brass Quintet. That was all the information I
> had - not good.
>
> Somehow I discovered that the performance was was by the Melbourne Brass
> Ensemble and after chasing up their entire discography, I discovered that
> the piece was "Golyardes Grounde" by Malcolm Forsythe (1972). Next problem,
> who is this guy?
>
> I have looked in Oxford Guide to Music, and Australian Music (just in case)
> and the Cambridge Guide to 20thC Music with no luck. Encyclopaedia
> Brittanica is no good and an exhaustive search of the Internet brought up
> little information apart from a Symphony No. 2 performed by the Thunder Bay
> Symphony Orchestra (in Minnesota?).
>
> Any information on him or where I could get a score of this piece would be
> most helpful. It's a lovely little thing, reminiscent of a 20thC
> Pachelbel's Canon and quite difficult.
>
> thanks
>
> Rolf Miezitis
>
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- Anybody heard of Malcolm Forsythe?
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