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Maestro Bramwell Tovey, Principal Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra and a frequently featured artist at the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, has died, the orchestra announced Wednesday. Tovey’s death was one day after his 69th...

Bramwell Tovey has died after a long bout with cancer; he appeared as both a conductor and pianist with the CSO and other top orchestras.

'He was a musicians' conductor whose warmth, sense of humour and artistic leadership will be sorely missed.' — Bill Chandler, director, BBC Concert Orchestra

Extraordinary Beethoven, and an Adventurous Streak The pianist Stewart Goodyear plays the standards brilliantly, and also writes music that nods to rock and calypso. Stewart Goodyear, seen here in his childhood home in Ontario, will play Beethoven in a recital at the 92nd Street Y.Credit...Narisa Ladak for The New York Times May 21, 2021, 10:00 a.m. ET The Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear never knew his father, who died of cancer a month before he was born. But Stewart Sr., an aspiring writer,...