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DENISE BROADHURST
JUNE 11th 1970 - SEPTEMBER 19th 2008
We are heartbroken over the loss of Denise Broadhurst who passed away Friday September 19th after a long and a courageous battle with breast cancer. She left this world peacefully, surrounded by family and close friends. Denise was a wonderful daughter and sister, a good friend, and a gifted musician.
Denise was a truly remarkable person; she was infinitely kind, had a fantastic wit, and her generous spirit enriched the lives of the people around her.
Denise has always had a passion for music; from punk rock to classical, music was her life.
She was a beloved and dedicated teacher and has been selected to receive the State University of New York's Chancellor Award for Excellence in Teaching. As a tenured Assistant Professor of music at Nassau Community College and adjunct at Hosftra University she shared her love of music with her students. Her many compositions and performances will be here forever as a gift to us all.
Denise, you have touched so many lives. You are loved by many around the world.
We miss you and always will.......
This will be a place to go to share stories, photos and music in remembrance of Denise and her life that touched us all.
Details such as memorials and recitals being held for Denise in both Minneapolis and New York City and other such information will be listed on this Blog.
Unfortunately we do not have everyone's email addresses, please feel free to forward this Blog to anyone who knew Denise.
Thank you for your love and support during this difficult time.
6 comments:
I just wanted to note here that this coming Sat., Dec. 7, there will be a performance of Denise's beautiful choral piece "A Christmas Carol" by her devoted friends at the Community Singers of Queens, for whom Denise served as accompanist for 10 years. Details below:
http://www.csofq.org/
We still miss Denise terribly and think of her fondly. Working on this piece we feel a bit of her wonderful presence in the room with us again, and give thanks for that.
I wanted to make a new post on the site about this, but new posts seem to be disabled, so this was the next best thing. =) Peace.
That is so lovely, thank you for letting us know!!!
I will share the word with friends. I wish I was still in NYC and I would attend, alas I am not so I will be thinking of you all and our dear friend.
Hello, my name is Joey Hochgesang and I was hoping you could help me. I am a Music student at West Virginia Wesleyan College and study under the direction of Dan Hughes. Recently, Dr. Hughes had our school's elite choir perform Denise's choral work, "Where the Wild Things Are," and upon listening to it, my breath was taken away. Her writing is so thorough, full of space and beauty and perfectly placed dissonance.
It has given me cause to choose Denise's music as the subject for my Undergraduate Research paper. After a fair amount of Youtube digging I've only been able to find one or two recordings of her work. Any music, scores, links to publishers, etc. that you could provide would be of great assistance in researching her work.
Thank you,
-Joey Hochgesang
Hi Joey,
I was so happy to read your post, thank you very much for sharing. I always knew Denise's music would live on and inspire others. I've passed your message on to some people and I'm sure everyone here that sees your message would be happy to help as well.
I will be in touch.
Laura
Hi Joey,
Can you send me your email address or drop me a note at drewdesign.nyc@gmail.com and I can help you further.
Thanks.
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