From Kenneth Babb and Kaila Rochelle, specialneedsinmusic.com.We are very sorry to hear about the passing of Richard Soar. He was a most interesting and knowledgeable person.  My pianist colleague, Kaila Rochelle, and I have been working with Richard on a Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf recording project.  We last heard from him around the end of April. Kaila noticed that a link we included from our web site to his Barn Elms 'Maddox Petrovsky Repertoire Project' web site no longer works. I googled the net and discovered Richard's Obituary notice on your 'Italy Community' web page.  Here is a link to our Dittersdorf multimedia web page;   Regarding the Dittersdorf piano works presented at our web site, Richard wrote:   "...I am absolutely delighted with them and would very much like to know whether you both have any favourites? I'm playing them repeatedly and several have already made an immediate impression, others are growing on me quickly.Thanks again to both of you for all the hard work - I will try to contain my eagerness now to hear the remaining 17! Best regards,Richard ..." Richard authored the script for our Dittersdorf  bio movie presentation; "A Tale Of A Musician and Composer."   Our condolences to his family. He spoke often of them in his emails.    Regards,Kenneth Babb   kbabb@verizon.net   Kaila Rochelle   musicrecovery@yahoo.com      Â
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From Kenneth Babb and Kaila Rochelle, specialneedsinmusic.com.We are very sorry to hear about the passing of Richard Soar. He was a most interesting and knowledgeable person.  My pianist colleague, Kaila Rochelle, and I have been working with Richard on a Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf recording project.  We last heard from him around the end of April. Kaila noticed that a link we included from our web site to his Barn Elms 'Maddox Petrovsky Repertoire Project' web site no longer works. I googled the net and discovered Richard's Obituary notice on your 'Italy Community' web page.  Here is a link to our Dittersdorf multimedia web page;   Regarding the Dittersdorf piano works presented at our web site, Richard wrote:   "...I am absolutely delighted with them and would very much like to know whether you both have any favourites? I'm playing them repeatedly and several have already made an immediate impression, others are growing on me quickly.Thanks again to both of you for all the hard work - I will try to contain my eagerness now to hear the remaining 17! Best regards,Richard ..." Richard authored the script for our Dittersdorf  bio movie presentation; "A Tale Of A Musician and Composer."   Our condolences to his family. He spoke often of them in his emails.    Regards,Kenneth Babb   kbabb@verizon.net   Kaila Rochelle   musicrecovery@yahoo.com      Â