On February 3, 2008, 50-year-old Argentine composer Jorge Liderman did the unthinkable: he stepped off a railway platform in El Cerritos, CA, into the path of a BART train. This irreversible career decision occurred so suddenly that Bridge Records barely had time to update and reprint the backplate and booklet of Liderman's new CD Barcelonazo. Already long slated for release, the disc contains no acknowledgement of the event other than the addition of a death date for the composer; nevertheless, Barcelonazo will serve, to ...
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On February 3, 2008, 50-year-old Argentine composer Jorge Liderman did the unthinkable: he stepped off a railway platform in El Cerritos, CA, into the path of a BART train. This irreversible career decision occurred so suddenly that Bridge Records barely had time to update and reprint the backplate and booklet of Liderman's new CD Barcelonazo. Already long slated for release, the disc contains no acknowledgement of the event other than the addition of a death date for the composer; nevertheless, Barcelonazo will serve, to many, as Liderman's epitaph. Ironically, for many others, it may well serve as an introduction; despite that Liderman's music has been relatively well represented on CD for a composer born after 1950, the audience able to work its way through the thicket of contemporary efforts to find him has been small. Liderman's premature death will help raise awareness of the work, that much is inevitable. Suffice it is that Liderman was very highly regarded among his colleagues and performing...
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