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He is a pianist, composer
and teacher born in Cape
Town, South
Africa. He studied at the Royal College of
Music in London and performed
in Europe and Great Britain before emigrating
to Australia. He
became a teacher at the New South Wales Conservatory and performed
with many leading orchestras including the Melbourne
Symphony Orchestra
, being known as a champion of Liszt,
Rachmaninov, and the Romantic period of music. He was a lifelong friend of the
composer and musical director Lindley Evans, and they both died on the same
day in 1982. His compositions
include New Guinean Fantasy, which
he composed on the island during the battle there in 1944, and the film
scores for the 1935 The Burgomeister and 1955 Jedda . His biography Isador Goodman: A Life in Music was published in 1983 by his fourth wife Virginia
Goodman
Melbourne
Symphony Orchestra recordings
Warsaw Concerto ( Richard Addinsell)
DG 413 259-2 (CD: Warsaw Concerto)
Conductor - Patrick Thomas
Piano - Isador Goodman
Sources:
- http://www.gold-music.com/1573/Isador_Goodman.html
- http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2005/July05/Dangerous_moonlight_4767333.htm
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0329101/
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