http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/arts/music/01hofmann.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
3 Facts
- Peter Hofmann sang opera, in musicals and surprisingly enough even rock-n-roll which made him impressive because he had a voice that could sing it all.
- He passed away from pneumonia at the young age of 66, this past Tuesday, November 30th.
- Hofmann was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and soon after retired in 1999.
2 Questions
- What inspired him to start singing Opera and studying classical music as opposed to Rock?
- How did he become famous?
1 Supported Opinion
http://www.tributes.com/show/Peter-Hofmann-89885396 ; this talked about how he bridged the gap between the entertainment business and also the performing classical business. He was more than just one genre of music.
New Vocab:
Parkinson's Disease: A progressive nervous disease occurring most often after the age of 50, associated with the destruction of brain cells.
4 comments:
I feel that this is a this is a very tragic loss for the music community, as Peter Hofmann really did bridge the gap between forms of music. On that, do you think this bridging was an advancement in musical culture? or was it just an experiment gone wrong?
That's terrible. He suffered with Parkinson's Disease for so long. I'm interested in the rock songs he apparently sung. I didn't realize he did that.
Peter Hoffmann sounds like a very talented man. I think Hoffmann attempted to build a bridge between different forms of music, but I don't think he necessarily did make it on to the other side, because there are so much people out there that are against fusing different genres of music together.
I find it sad when important writers and artists pass away. But I've also noticed how many I have discovered, because of their death. (I read an article for my blog about the death of Bella Akhmadulina, a prominent poet in Russian history, and I discovered that I really like her work!)
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