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Jan 19, 2022 · “Edmund Reid, the violinist who has died aged 85, was often the only black musician to be found among the rank-and-file members of British orchestras,” reads an unsigned obituary in Monday’s (1/17) Daily Telegraph (U.K.) “He recalled that after his audition for Sir Georg Solti at the Royal Opera House in 1964 it took two months for a ...
Jan 16, 2022 · For many years Edmund Reid, who has died aged 85, was the only black face to be seen in the major British orchestras. Jamaica born, Edmund won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music...
Jan 23, 2022 · Although Edmund Reid, better known as Eddie, has now passed away but his legacy and works will be remembered. He was one of very few black violinists who have graced the stages in orchestras throughout the United Kingdom. Reid, 85, died on December 13, 2021 after a short illness.
Dec 13, 2021 · Edmund Reid was appointed MBE in 2020. In 1959 he married Gretta Barrow, a fellow student at the Royal Academy of Music, and together they recorded Havergal Brian’s Legend for violin and piano. She survives him with their two sons and two daughters.
Jan 16, 2022 · Edmund Reid, the violinist who has died aged 85, was often the only black musician to be found among the rank-and-file members of British orchestras; he recalled that after his audition for Sir...
- Telegraph Obituaries
Retiring from the Metropolitan Police in 1896 aged 49 due to ill health, he became landlord of 'The Lower Red Lion' public house in Herne in Kent in March 1896, giving that up in October 1896 to set up as a private detective. In 1903 Reid moved into No. 4, Eddington Gardens at Hampton-on-Sea.
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Jan 19, 2022 · Reid died at age 85 on December 13, 2021, following a brief... Although Edmund ‘Eddie’ Reid has passed away, his works and legacy will live on as one of the very few black violinists to have graced the stages of orchestras across the United Kingdom.
