Richard Kidd
The veteran composer, organist and trombone player for Symphony New Brunswick says he's inspired both by a palace in Crete and the marsh around Darlings Island.
q Age?
a 53
q Provenance?
a Born in Stockport (near Manchester), England, lived in Scotland as a child, moved to Montreal in 1967, Vancouver in 1979, and to Saint John as director of music at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in 1986.
q Why music, as a career?
a I had so many musical interests, it was inevitable that I would do music full-time.
q What was your breakthrough moment?
a Getting my first choral piece, Windsong, published by Boosey & Hawkes in New York in 1990.
q What would you be if you weren't a musician?
a I would have liked to be a physicist.
q Your current obsession?
a My boats.
q What are you working on next?
a A commission for Symphony New Brunswick.
q What place on Earth inspires you?
a The palace at Knossos, Crete. I love walking through history, and feeling that I'm in another time.
q What place in New Brunswick inspires you?
a Darlings Island - the variety and richness of life on the marsh, and the quietness on the river.
q Secret indulgence?
a Marg's butterscotch chip cookies in the cathedral kitchen.
q Your favourite hero of fiction?
a Harry Bosch in Michael Connelly's detective series. He's an individualist, working creatively within a system.
q What is your greatest extravagance?
a Skim-milk lattes at Java Moose.
q What is your greatest fear?
a Going deaf.
q Greatest joy?
a My children.
q What are you reading?
a The White Lioness, one of the earlier Henning Mankell detective stories.
q What's on your iPod?
a Not sure - I haven't seen it in several weeks. I don't really like ear phones.
q What talent would you like to have?
a Bi-location.
q What is the greatest public misconception about music?
a Many people only appreciate music as a background to some other activity, and are therefore unable to concentrate on the musical content.
q Your most treasured possession?
a My piano.
q What is your motto?
a Wherever you go, there you are.
q How would you like to die?
a I would like to be corporally assumed, like Mary, bypassing the whole dying experience.
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