Sydney Joseph "Syd" Hodgkinson

Sydney Joseph "Syd" Hodgkinson

Sydney Hodgkinson Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers from Jan. 18 to Jan. 21, 2008.
HODGKINSON (SYDNEY JOSEPH) (SYD) - Passed away peacefully on January 14 2008 aged 84 years. Syd, beloved Husband of Veronica, a devoted Dad, Grandad and Great Grandad. He will be greatly missed by all his Family and Friends. Family flowers only but donations if desired to the Stroke Organisation UK. Funeral service followed by cremation at Manchester Crematorium on Wednesday January 23 at 12.15pm. All inquiries Chorlton Co-op Funeral Home. Tel 881 2212.

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James Willey

January 18, 2021

I've known Syd since my undergraduate days at the Eastman School of Music both as a friend and as a composer. Syd was a find for all the schools he taught at. At the level of technique and musical language, Syd knew the literature; had conducted, learned and taught music in all the styles that evolved during his lifetime; and could conduct, describe and/or teach them - whatever was needed. He was a deeply serious man who could also be outrageously funny - and sometimes astonishingly astonishing. He knew how to do that. I will miss him, his voice, his personality. And by the way with coldest certainty I believe his 5th and 7th String Quartets to be amongst the finest quartets written in the last 100 years. They are good in every way. He never stopped developing his voice. Syd Hodkinson was a fine composer, a good friend, spectacular teacher and just plain fine resident of the planet. What a loss!!

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