Obit: Alicia de Larrocha

Subject: RE: Obit: Alicia de Larrocha
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 29 Sep 09 - 03:02 PM

Her husband was the pianist, Juan Torra, who died in 1982.

Subject: RE: Obit: Alicia de Larrocha
From: Stringsinger
Date: 29 Sep 09 - 02:52 PM

Was her husband's name Dennis Sanders?

Frank

Subject: RE: Obit: Alicia delaRoccha
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Sep 09 - 12:40 PM

I was all set to hear her in concert many years ago and something came up and I wasn't able to go or perhaps I simply couldn't get a ticket. She was very popular in classical circles and tickets to reasonably priced concerts went fast when she performed. I also have several of her recordings on CD.

SRS

Subject: RE: Obit: Alicia delaRoccha
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 06:08 PM

She was wonderful. At 4'9" tall the odds should have been stacked against her as a pianist, but she had a handspan much wider than most pianists much bigger than her. She constantly exercised her hands to achieve that reach. She was fabulous in the music of Albéniz and Granados but she was excellent in Mozart too.

Subject: RE: Obit: Alicia delaRoccha
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 05:08 PM

"Family friend Gregor Benko confirmed her death to the AP... He said de Larrocha had been in poor health for two years, since breaking her hip.
A spokesman for the Quiron hospital, where she was admitted some days ago, said she had died from cardiorespiratory failure shortly after 2300 on Friday."
Surviving are a son and a daughter.

BBC news 26 Sept. 2009

Subject: RE: Obit: Alicia delaRoccha
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 04:56 PM

Well, Googling her and "86", I learned that she had been hospitalized with a broken hip, and at 86 that's enough to start a lot of other things, or to make preexisting problems worse.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Obit: Alicia delaRoccha
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 04:31 PM

My pianist wife wants in the worst way to know what the cause of death was. Anybody know?

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Obit: Alicia delaRoccha
From: RangerSteve
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 04:02 PM

OK, I meant no disrespect by spelling her name wrong. Sorry.

Subject: RE: Obit: Alicia de Larrocha
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 01:49 PM

Please, let's get her name correctly:
Alicia de Larrocha.

I have several cds of her playing. Her "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" is one I could not do without.

Subject: RE: Obit: Alicia delaRoccha
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 12:53 PM

Well I hope you are wrong mate.
She was a wonderful pianist, and is a great loss.

JM

Subject: Obit: Alicia delaRoccha
From: RangerSteve
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 12:50 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unR6coI5rgI

This probably won't get much mention in the news. Too bad. She was 86.