The death of Terry Barfoot
Society members will be sad to hear that Terry Barfoot has just died, aged 70. Terry did several presentations to the Society the most recent of which was on Bruckner. This was a difficult assignment in the context of a Society evening as Bruckner’s works are expansive shall we say, and putting together a programme to show the range of his oeuvre was not easy.
Terry and I spent some time discussing this and needless to say he came up with a programme of musical selections combined with visual material as well which was extremely well received. He had a natural gift for presentation and combined with a deep knowledge and love of music and composers meant his presentations were both erudite and entertaining.
His Arts in Residence weekends were also hugely enjoyable and very popular. He will be a sad loss to the music world.
Peter Curbishley
Salisbury Recorded Music Society 