Conrad Wilson Wednesday 14 May 2003 02.03 BST Obituary Arthur Oldham Founder of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, he mastered the most complex works If Wilhelm Pitz, who simultaneously trained the Bayreuth Festival Chorus in Germany and the Philharmonia Chorus in […]
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The independent – Tuesday 13 May 2003 Arthur Oldham – Founder of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus Arthur Oldham created the Edinburgh Festival Chorus in 1965 for one of the earliest British performances of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. He nurtured his singers […]
Arthur Oldham, composer and choirmaster Born: 6 September, 1926, in London Died: 4 May, 2003, in Paris ARTHUR Oldham, whose funeral takes place in Paris today, will be particularly remembered for establishing his worldwide reputation with the Edinburgh Festival Chorus. […]
ARTHUR Oldham, the composer and choirmaster who founded the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, has died, aged 78. Mr Oldham had been suffering from cancer for at least a year, but had only recently retired as chorus master of the Orchestre de […]
Arthur Oldham Composer, teacher, and founder of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus who was renowned here and abroad CONRAD WILSON Wednesday 7 May 2003 If anyone deserved to be called Mr Chorusmaster, it was Arthur Oldham. His death in Paris at […]