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HEPBURN o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-06-18 published
HEPBURN,
Eleanor
Mae
(BENNETT)
Of Wiarton, peacefully surrounded by all her loving family on
Saturday June 16, 2007 at London Health Sciences. The former
Eleanor Mae
BENNETT in her 80th year. Loving wife of Ellery for
58 years. Cherished mother of Karen (Jack
MacKINNON,)
Yellowknife
Kathy (Dave
WILSON), Sauble Beach; Gwen
GILBERT (friend Ernie
FARROW), Wiarton; Marilyn (Garth
CAMPBELL), R.R.#1 Hepworth
Keith (Dianne), Wiarton; Brent (Wanda), R.R.#4 Wiarton; Vern
(Diane), R.R.#4 Markdale; Vic (Brenda), Wiarton; and Melanie
(Graham CRAIG), Belfast, Northern Ireland. Beloved Grandmother
of Jennifer (Mike
WATTERS,)
Stephanie
(Paul
SENIOR,) Heidi (Don
VAIL,)
Jody
WILSON (Laura,)
Tatum (friend Brent
BELL,) Rachel
(Kevin HOWELL), Derick (Joy), Jay, Ronnie (Lindsay), Janna (friend
Trevor ORTMAN), Alison, Nick, Mitzi, Nita, Kyle, Kurt, Amy and
Sophia. Great-Grandmother of Erin, Cassy, Kate, Jessica, Caillean,
Tristan
Zach,
Braden, Josh and Reid. Dear sister of Arnold
BENNETT,
Red BAY; and Marlene (Ross
DAVIDSON,)
Wiarton.
Sadly missed by
her brothers-in-law; sisters-in-law; nieces; nephews; and many
Friends.
Predeceased by son-in-law Rick
GILBERT; brother, Gordon
and sister, Connie
BURK/BURKE.
Friends are invited to call at the Thomas C.
Whitcroft Funeral Home and Chapel, Sauble Beach (519) 422-0041
on Tuesday from 2: 00-4:00 and 7:00-9:00 p.m. A service celebrating
Mae's life will be conducted from Saint_John's United Church, Wiarton
on Wednesday June 20th, 2007 at 1 o'clock. Rev. Ed
LAKSMANIS
officiating. Interment in Colpoy's Bay Cemetery. As an expression
of sympathy, donations to Heart and Stroke, Lung Association, Diabetes
Association or the South Bruce Peninsula Fire Department would
be greatly appreciated. In living memory of Mae, a Lilac tree
will be planted in the funeral home meadow by the Thomas C. Whitcroft
Funeral Home and Chapel. Condolences may be expressed on-line at
www.whitcroftfuneralhome.com
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BEACOCK,
Hazel (née
SMITH)
Of Wiarton passed away at Wiarton Hospital surrounded by her
family on Friday, August 17, 2007 in her 95th year. Cherished
mother of Lorna (Francis)
EDMONSTONE of Sauble Beach and Diane
(Geoff) EPSTEIN of Waterloo. Special grandmother of Lisa (Steve)
ASHTON, Greg (Anita)
EDMONSTONE, Scott (Shannon) Edmondstone,
Graham EPSTEIN and Jordan
EPSTEIN and great-grandmother of Tyler
ASHTON and Blaise and Savana
EDMONSTONE.
She will be sadly missed
by her sister-in-law Clara
SMITH of Lion's head as well as many
nieces, nephews and her many special Friends. Hazel was predeceased
by her husband Norman, parents Sarah
(McARTHUR) and Patrick
SMITH,
brothers Alf, Charlie, Angus, Patrick (Tiny) and Bill and sisters
Kathleen EBEL,
Stella
BRANNICK and Ellen
HEPBURN. Visitation
will be held at the George Funeral Home, Wiarton on Sunday, August
19, 2007 from 2: 00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The funeral
service to celebrate Hazel's life will be held at the funeral
home on Monday, August 20, 2007 at 11: 00 a.m. Interment Bayview
Cemetery. Donations made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, Canadian
Cancer Society or charity of your choice would be appreciated
by the family as expressions of sympathy. Condolences may be
sent to the family at www.georgefuneralhome.com
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SKENE,
Bud
Of Wiarton passed away at Gateway Haven Nursing Home on Tuesday,
August 28, 2007 in his 82nd year. Beloved husband of Harriet
and cherished father of Judy (Harold)
IRVINE of Owen Sound, Geri
(Gerry) BLACK of Nova Scotia, John (Linda)
SKENE of Colpoy's
Bay, Jackie
SKENE of Owen Sound, Jim
SKENE
(Barry
Crackle) of
Owen Sound and Jill
SKENE of Wiarton. Sadly missed by stepchildren
Brenda LIHOU of Oliphant, Diana (Derek)
POCOCK of Oliphant, Brian
LIHOU of Wiarton and Paul (Lee-Anne)
LIHOU of Parkhead, brother
Earl SKENE of Wiarton, sisters Helen (Bob)
PORTER of Lake Charles,
Marjorie SMITH of Wiarton and Fairy (Gordon)
BUCHANAN of Oliphant,
11 Grandchildren and 5 Great-Grandchildren. Bud was predeceased
by his first wife
Wilma and his parents Lydia
(HEPBURN) and Albert
SKENE, 3 brothers and 5 sisters. At Bud's request, there will
be no funeral home visitation or service. Cremation has taken
place. Interment Balsam Grove Cemetery, Oliphant. Arrangements
entrusted to the George Funeral Home, Wiarton. Donations made
to the Friends of Gateway Residence Council or Salvation Army
Food Bank, Wiarton would be appreciated by the family as expressions
of sympathy. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.georgefuneralhome.com
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'Brilliant alchemist' inspired Toronto and its artists
Conductor's determination transformed the Canadian Opera Company
- and made its new home a reality, writes Sandra
MARTIN
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page
S10
Everything about Richard
BRADSHAW was big: his personality, his
intellect, his appetite for ideas and experience, his ambition,
his optimism, his heart and his faith in God. He lived in Toronto
for fewer than 20 years, but his impact was huge. His vision
and determination built the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing
Arts, one of the world's very best theatres for ballet and opera,
both acoustically and architecturally. He transformed a regional
opera company into an internationally recognized one; he gave
us our first full production of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle
he pushed the artistic boundaries of who should direct and perform
opera. He made opera the hottest ticket in town.
Tall, grey-haired and bold, with florid cheeks and eyes encased
in black Buddy Holly glasses, Mr.
BRADSHAW was both an artist
who could inspire his musicians and an entrepreneur who could
sell his vision. Asked in an interview which came first during
what he liked to call "the 30 years war," making music or building
an opera house, he replied: "In the middle of the night, I worry
about money. When I get up in the morning, I look forward to
conducting."
Writer Margaret Atwood captured that dual capacity in an e-mail
message from Scandinavia. "Richard
BRADSHAW was one of a kind.
He was passionate about the work itself - whatever it might be
- and set the highest standards for it. But he was playful and
innovative as well, and a joy to work with. We saw the premiere
of The Handmaid's Tale in Denmark together - and I could just
hear him thinking about how he would do it if he could get it
to Toronto - which he did, triumphantly. His specialty was making
silk purses out of the sow's ears handed to him time and time
again by our mingy politicians. Nobody could make two cents stretch
as far as he could.... The best tribute to him will be to try
to match his commitment to excellence, and his grand vision of
what we can be - as opposed to what we sometimes all too drearily
are."
Richard James
BRADSHAW was born in Rugby in the British Midlands,
the only child of Alfred James
BRADSHAW, an accountant, and his
wife, Florence Mary
(DUNKLEY.)
When
Richard was quite small,
the family moved to Higham Ferrers in Northamptonshire. From
his father, an amateur musician and a dedicated rereader of Charles
Dickens, he inherited a love of literature. His mother passed
on her acutely sensitive ear - he once scored 100 per cent in
an aural exam.
When Richard was 8, his parents took him to a piano performance
of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and it stuck as his earliest
musical memory. As a boy, he was also learning to play the piano
and the organ. By the time he was 12, he had a paying job playing
the organ at the local church. Two years later, he took at least
symbolic steps toward his career goal when he conducted a rehearsal
of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony with the Kettering Orchestral
Society. But music was not his entire life. He loved sports,
especially cricket and rugby, and collected stamps and indulged
in the peculiarly British pastime of trainspotting.
To please his accountant father, who wanted him to have a broad
educational background, he studied English literature at the
University of London, graduating with an honours degree in 1968.
At the same time, he was continuing his musical education, playing
the harpsichord, organ and even the flute and studying conducting
privately with Sir Adrian Boult.
After university, he returned home and founded Music at Higham,
serving as its musical director for four years. Then, with his
entrepreneurial juices flowing, he moved back to the capital
and founded the New London Ensemble and conducted the Saltarello
Choir from 1972 to 1975. He said later (in a Toronto Life profile)
that these years were "among the most wonderful" in his life
because there was government money for the arts, and he felt,
with the confidence of youth, that he "could do anything."
What he needed, though, was a boost so that he could work with
a major orchestra. That came in the usual way: a combination
of luck, talent and chutzpah. A musician friend's father heard
him and introduced him to conductor Sir Colin Davis, who was
intrigued enough to attend one of Mr.
BRADSHAW's rare London
concerts. Sir Colin then called the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic,
which had already declined to hear Mr.
BRADSHAW conduct, and
secured him an audition. Mr.
BRADSHAW won a fellowship to work
with the prestigious orchestra and went on to Glyndebourne in
1975 as the chorus director of its opera festival. That was where
he made another fortuitous connection, with administrator Diana
HEPBURNE-
SCOTT.
They were married on June 30, 1977. In many ways,
she was Mr.
BRADSHAW's antithesis - shy, intensely private -
but also his steadying counterbalance - ironic, stalwart, commonsensical.
It was an extremely rare rehearsal or performance that didn't
find her quietly sitting in the audience, listening and watching
intently.
That same year, he was invited to join the San Francisco Opera
as resident conductor, a position he held for the next dozen
years, mostly under Kurt Herbert Adler as general director. Mr. Adler,
a Teutonic maestro who controlled every aspect of the company,
from costumes and sets to maintenance budgets, was a grandiose
influence on Mr.
BRADSHAW.
While working at San Francisco Opera,
Mr. BRADSHAW often accepted appointments as a guest conductor,
which is how he first came to the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto
in 1988, to conduct Tosca.
In 1989, he was hired as the Canadian Opera Company's chief conductor
and head of music, arriving just in time to see the elaborate
plans to build a ballet and opera house in midtown Toronto jettisoned
by the provincial government because of cost overruns and fundraising
shortfalls. He was promoted to artistic director in 1994 after
the abrupt and choleric departure of Brian
DICKIE, the man who
had hired him four years earlier, and was named general director
in January, 1998, making him the first musician to lead the Canadian
Opera Company since Ettore Mazzoleni in the late 1950s.
He conducted more than 60 operas during his tenure with the Canadian
Opera Company and kept up a steady off-season life travelling
around the world as a guest conductor. While he was criticized
for not putting more Canadian operas on the stage - he refused
to compromise his musical standards to nationalist fervour -
he did commission at least two homegrown operas, The Golden Ass
and The Scarlet Princess. Meanwhile, he continued the composer-in-residence
program established by predecessor Lotfi Mansouri and spiced
up the lineup of crowd-pleasing operas such as Carmen, The Barber
of Seville and Rigoletto with edgier modern offerings, including
Bluebeard's Castle, Salome and Jenufa. He also persuaded talented
and innovative directors from film and theatre to work in opera.
Mr. BRADSHAW was "so passionate" about such provocative and novel
approaches to presenting both new and classical work, according
to film director Atom Egoyan. After seeing Mr. Egoyan's Exotica,
Mr. BRADSHAW approached him about directing Salome.
"He was a brilliant alchemist who was able to put together designers
and directors and singers. That was his craft," Mr. Egoyan said
yesterday between preproduction meetings for his next film, Adoration.
"And then he was able to respond to the production and colour
the orchestra to accommodate the vision he is seeing on the stage.
He was the glue that put it all together."
Salome and François Girard's production of Oedipus Rex with Symphony
of Psalms (which won eight Dora Mavor Moore awards in 1997) attracted
younger audiences, and Mr.
BRADSHAW's decision to take productions
such as Robert Lepage's double bill of Bela Bartok's Bluebeard's
Castle and Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartung to the prestigious Edinburgh
Festival won the company international acclaim that resounded
in the box office back home. He would return to these directors
when he undertook his audacious scheme to present a full Ring
Cycle -- all 17 hours of it -- in 2006 to coincide with the opening
of the opera house.
Journalist Barbara Amiel, a devotee of Wagner, has seen the Ring
Cycle in Bayreuth, Munich, London and Berlin, among other places.
"Musically,
BRADSHAW's
Toronto
Ring matched any of them and in
places, exceeded some," she said in an e-mail message this week.
"To do this with any orchestra would be magnificent. To do this
with a Canadian orchestra that essentially had to learn a new
language is a miracle," she said. "He sweated musicality and
that orchestra he loved mopped it up. All the young musicians
he laboured over and encouraged (they look like none of them
have seen the other side of 30) are as much his monument as the
bricks and glass of his opera house."
And it very definitely was his opera house. Architect Jack
DIAMOND
has been widely praised for designing an auditorium that has
glorious acoustics and ambience and a building that embraces
audiences and the city, but it was Mr.
BRADSHAW's vision and
grit that made it happen.
"What was extraordinary about Richard was his relentless optimism,"
said Kevin Garland, former executive director of the Canadian
Opera House Corp. and now executive director of the National
Ballet of Canada. "He never gave up and never stopped being determined
that it would happen and never stopped badgering governments
to make sure that they knew it was important to support the arts."
Richard James
BRADSHAW was born in Rugby, England, on April 16,
1944. He died in Toronto of a heart attack on August 15, 2007.
He was 63. He is survived by his wife, Diana, two children and
extended family.
A day in the life
There must have been times when Richard
BRADSHAW was in resting
mode, but they aren't on record. In 2003, I shadowed him for
a day that began before 9 a.m. with a planning meeting for the
Ring Cycle, followed by a press conference to announce the new
season, a lunchtime lecture at which he twisted a few fundraising
arms, a Bay Street meeting with architect Jack Diamond before
the Canadian Opera Company board's building committee, a quick
trip home for dinner, during which he snatched time to play Bach's
Goldberg Variations on the piano before heading to the Hummingbird
Centre to oversea a rehearsal of A Masked Ball that lasted until
almost midnight, when he headed home for a stack of paperwork
and a large Scotch before climbing into bed. The next day, he
was at it again, except he also conducted the orchestra at the
dress rehearsal of Jenufa.
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EGAN,
Wm.
Dwight
Peacefully, at his home, Portland, Oregon on Tuesday, October 16,
2007, Wm. Dwight
EGAN, in his 59th year, beloved husband of Joanne
GRANT. Dear father of Laura and Miquel
MANRIQUES,
Capitola,
California
and grandfather of Victoria (Tia)
MANRIQUES. Dear step-father
of Charles (Chuck) and Nancy
ADAM/ADAMS,
Brian
ADAM/ADAMS, Richard and
Michelle ADAM/ADAMS. Dear grandfather of Tammi and Tim
GAEA,
Charles
(Chuck) and Mindy
ADAM/ADAMS,
Katie
ADAM/ADAMS and Kylee Marie
ADAM/ADAMS. Cherished
great-grandfather of Sean, Ryan and Evan
GAEA.
Loving son of
the late William and Frances
EGAN,
Bolton. Dear brother of Lois
and Thomas
HEPPELL, Victoria, British Columbia; Paul and Lynne
EGAN,
Bolton;
Deborah and Hal
BROOK, Orangeville. Fondly remembered
by his nieces and nephews. The family will receive their Friends
at the Egan Funeral Home, 203 Queen Street S. (Hwy. 50), Bolton
(905-857-2213) Wednesday, November 7 from one o'clock until time
of memorial service in the chapel at 2 o'clock. If desired, memorial
donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society. Condolences
for the family may be offered at www.eganfuneralhome.com
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HEPPNER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-01-13 published
TIMSON,
Emily "
Pete"
Suddenly but peacefully on Friday, January 12, 2007, at home
in her 91st year, beloved mother of Jeffrey and his wife Cherie,
Judith TIMSON and her husband Martin
HEPPNER. Cherished grandmother
of Gregory and Ashleigh
TIMSON and Jonathan and Emily
HEPPNER.
Survived by her brother Robert (Bud)
WALKER and his wife
Molly,
and sister Bertha Roslyn
WALKER, all of New Hampshire, and sister
Francis OWEN of Texas. Emily was the former registrar at the
Canadian Scholarship Trust Foundation, one of Sunnybrook Medical
Centre's most devoted volunteers, and a woman who brought out
the best in everyone she knew. We adored her. The family will
receive Friends at the Humphrey Funeral Home - A.W. Miles Chapel,
1403 Bayview Avenue (south of Eglinton Avenue East), from 2-4 p.m.
on Saturday, January 13th. Funeral service will be held in the
chapel on Sunday, January 14th at 1: 00 p.m. with reception to
follow in the Leaside Room of the funeral home. If desired, donations
to the charity of your choice would be appreciated.
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PEARSE,
Jean
Margaret
Wilton
Jean died peacefully on Thursday September 27, 2007, at the age
of 86. Beloved wife of the late Allan T.M. (Monty) for 37 years,
she is survived by Vicki (John
GULLICK,)
James
(Victoria
PEARSE,)
Sandy (Stewart
CAMPBELL) and Bob. Cherished Nana to Brittany,
Tobey, Katie, Jillian, Jessica and Christopher. Jean was born
in Leeds, England, and during World War 2 was a Royal Navy Women's
Royal Naval Service working at Bletchley Park when she met Monty,
then a Captain in the Canadian army stationed in London. She
immigrated to Canada shortly afterwards, living first in Vancouver
and later settling in Toronto. An active member of All Saints'
Parish for over 50 years, Jean enjoyed the companionship of many
great Friends, literature, music, theatre, cottage life, bridge,
sewing, travel and above all her grandchildren. Predeceased by
her sister Kathleen
RAWSON, brother Geoffrey
HEPWORTH, and sister
Marjorie SCOTT.
Cremation. A celebration of Jean's life will
be held at All Saints' Kingsway, 2850 Bloor Street West, Toronto,
on Monday October 15 at 1: 00 p.m. with reception to follow. As
expressions of sympathy donations may be made to the Canadian
Cancer Society or the Salvation Army.
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