COMPOSER PINKHAM DIES

Composer DANIEL PINKHAM, who shared his music with peers and students at the New England Conservatory and the King's Chapel in Boston, Massachusetts since the late 1950s, has died. He was 83. Pinkham died on Monday (18DEC06) in Natick, Massachusetts after a battle with leukaemia. He joined the conservatory faculty in 1958 and was appointed music director at King's Chapel, a Unitarian church, the next year (59). During his first year at the church, he began a series of Sunday evening concerts, which will celebrate its 50th season next year. Many of Pinkham's anthems, which are now sung around the world, were first performed in Boston. Pinkham retired as music director in June 2000 and was named Music Director Emeritus. He continued working until last summer (06) and had a work premiere the night before his death (17DEC06) at the Memorial Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, A CRADLE HYMN, which was performed by the Harvard University Choir.

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