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	BBC Orchestra Personalities of the 1940s: Sidonie Goossens, Jack Mackintosh and Julian Herbage. A Travelling Days ...
		Sidonie was born on 19 October 1899 in Liscard, Cheshire.
		In 1924 Sidonie Goossens married the conductor Hyam Greenbaum.
		Sidonie Goossens died at the age of 105 on 15 December 2004.
	www.colindaylinks.com /dayspast/bbcpersonalitiesorch2.html (617 words)

	Sidonie Goossens \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited
		Thus Sidonie Goossens, who has died aged 105, was a paradox among great harpists: as the principal harp of a radio orchestra, she was unseen by most of her audience, and since that orchestra was the BBC Symphony, she had every opportunity to revel in performing the modern works central to its repertory.
		Sidonie started broadcasting in 1924, from the earliest "2LO calling" days of the BBC, in regular programmes from its Savoy Hill studio with the Wireless Quartet, and was a member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from its foundation in 1930 until 1980.
		Sidonie appeared with the Goossens Orchestra, formed by her conductor brother Eugene, and the adventurous programming of the BBC ensured that she worked under the batons of Beecham, Wood, Boult, Sargent, Furtwängler, Toscanini, Richard Strauss and Bruno Walter.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1374516,00.html (1100 words)

	Blog of Death: Sidonie Goossens
		Anne Sidonie Goossens, the principal harpist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra for nearly half a century, died in her sleep on Dec. 15.
		Goossens mastered difficult modern and avant garde works on her French Erard harp, and made her orchestral debut in 1921 in the orchestra her brother Eugene formed to play Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." She and Marie played the harp parts while Leon served as the principal oboe.
		A founding member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Goossens was its principal harpist from 1939 to 1981, and a professor of the harp at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for 30 years.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/001255.html (413 words)

	Sidonie Goossens - Telegraph
		Sidonie Goossens was a founder-member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1939, having been offered the post, as she recalled, "only after two well-known harpists had turned it down".
		Sidonie Goossens was the first solo harpist to broadcast, in 1923, and the first to appear on television, in 1936; the same year, she made front-page news in July when she was one of 50 Britons rescued from Barcelona by the destroyer Gallant when the Spanish Civil War broke out.
		Sidonie Goossens became Professor of the Harp at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1960, retiring when she was 90.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/16/db1601.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/12/16/ixportal.html (1389 words)

	Sound Generator - Celebrated harpist Sidonie Goossens dies
		Harpist Sidonie Goossens, who passed away last week (15th December) aged 105 was an extraordinary character who was principal harpist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra for an incredible fifty years from 1930 until her retirement.
		The Goossens family were originally from Belgian and had settled in Liverpool on the retirement of the conductor Eugene I from the Carl Rosa Opera Company.
		Sidonie was born in 1899 and joined the BBC in 1927.
	www.soundgenerator.com /news/showarticle.cfm?articleid=4671&CFID=22133802&CFTOKEN=60196858 (282 words)

	Final curtain for Goossens family - Arts - www.smh.com.au
		Sidonie Goossens, Britain's most acclaimed harpist and the last surviving member of the famous musical family, has died at the age of 105.
		Born in 1899, Sidonie was the youngest of the famous Goossens siblings.
		Goossens was the first solo harpist to broadcast, in 1923, and the first to appear on television, in 1936, and was principal harpist for the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1930 until her retirement.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Arts/Final-curtain-for-Goossens-family/2004/12/16/1102787207383.html (437 words)

	BBC Orchestra Personalities of the 1940s: Sidonie Goossens, Jack Mackintosh and Julian Herbage. A Travelling Days ...
		In 1924 Sidonie Goossens married the conductor Hyam Greenbaum.
		In 1923 Sidonie Goossens was the first solo harpist to broadcast on radio, and in 1936 the first to appear on television.
		Sidonie Goossens died at the age of 105 on 15 December 2004.
	members.westnet.com.au /colinday/dayspast/bbcpersonalitiesorch2.html (617 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Obituary: Sidonie Goossens
		Sidonie Goossens was a harpist of world renown for more than half a century.
		Sidonie was the first harpist to broadcast on radio and TV She was the first harpist to broadcast on radio, in 1923, and the first on television, in 1936.
		Sidonie Goossens played the harp for the last time in 1991, at the age of 90, at the Last Night of the Proms.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/3393369.stm (521 words)

	classical music - andante - sidonie goossens, harpist and last of a distinguished musical family, is dead at 105
		classical music - andante - sidonie goossens, harpist and last of a distinguished musical family, is dead at 105
		Sidonie Goossens, Harpist and Last of a Distinguished Musical Family, Is Dead At 105
		The Fall of the House -- A New Australian Film Re-Examines the Disgrace and Demise of Eugene Goossens [expired]
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=24885 (130 words)

	Classical Music :: The Classical Source :: Eugene Goossens — Orchestral Works/Vernon Handley :: Classical Music
		Beginning his career as a violinist in Sir Henry Wood’s Queen’s Hall Orchestra, Goossens gravitated to the conductor’s podium and developed a reputation for championing new and neglected music: in 1921, for example, he conducted the British concert premiere of The Rite of Spring.
		Goossens was at pains to state that Symphony No.1 has no message and is also without illustration of anything specific.
		A 14-page booklet note acts as both a biography of Goossens and a detailed introduction to his music, the work of a cosmopolitan figure who was very much his own man — and, unlike some other conductor-composers, Goossens was not one to ‘cut and paste’ and create an aural memoir of his concert repertoire.
	www.classicalsource.com /db_control/db_cd_review.php?id=2951&PHPSESSID=d5401cadefefc916403c997f942d14c8 (1484 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Obituaries - Sidonie Goossens OBE, Harpist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Indeed, Goossens must be the last alive to have shared the platform with such maestri as Toscanini, Weingartner, Beecham, Elgar and Stravinsky ("I have kissed them all," she said).
		Anne Sidonie Goossens was the youngest of five children all of whom became musicians (Eugene the well known conductor and Leon the oboist) and while studying, Goossens played the harp in the pit of the Coliseum for the long running musical Chu Chin Chow.
		The conductor Guido Cantelli was an admirer of Goossens’ artistry.
	news.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=1439692004 (1066 words)

	Gramophone - News - The world's best classical music magazine
		The first solo harpist to broadcast (in 1923) and the first to appear on television (in 1936), her orchestral career, primarily with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, lasted until her retirement in 1981.
		Goossens was born in Liscard, Merseyside, to musician parents.
		Goossen’s 100th birthday was marked by a celebratory concert at the Wigmore Hall, in which most of the harpists performing that evening were past pupils.
	www.gramophone.co.uk /newsMainTemplate.asp?storyID=2274&newssectionID=1 (271 words)

	Rewind (ABC TV): Sir Eugene Goossens: sex, magic and the maestro
		Sidonie Goossens has lived with that for almost half a century.
		Goossens stood down from his positions with both the Sydney Symphony and the Conservatorium.
		RENEE GOOSSENS, DAUGHTER OF SIR EUGENE: I was in a French convent.
	www.abc.net.au /tv/rewind/txt/s1189084.htm (2865 words)

	[Deathwatch] Sidonie Goossens, harpist, 105
		Obituary: Sidonie Goossens Sidonie Goossens: Britain's most enduring harpist Britain's most acclaimed harpist, Sidonie Goossens, has died at her home in Surrey aged 105.
		It was such fun." A young Sidonie playing the harp Sidonie was the first harpist to broadcast on radio and TV She was the first harpist to broadcast on radio, in 1923, and the first on television, in 1936.
		Sidonie playing in the BBC Symphony Orchestra She played in the BBC Symphony Orchestra for half a century Her colleagues benefited from her farm produce.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2004-December/000970.html (576 words)

	Classical Music News:: The Classical Source News:: Sidonie Goossens, Harpist and Last of a Distinguished Musical ...
		Sidonie Goossens, Harpist and Last of a Distinguished Musical Family, Is Dead At 105
		LONDON — Sidonie Goossens, a harpist and the last survivor of a musically distinguished quartet of brothers and sisters, has died, her family said Wednesday [15 December].
		Goossens died in her sleep at her home, the family said.
	classicalsource.com /db_control/db_news.php?id=226&... (266 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: Sidonie Goossens, Harpist With the BBC for 50 Years, Dies
		Goossens was the principal harpist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra for 50 years.
		She was one of the first women to tour with the London Symphony Orchestra, and was both the first harp soloist to make a radio broadcast (in 1924) and the first to appear on television (in 1926).
		Goossens was quite involved with new music, playing frequently with the London Sinfonietta and the Fires of London.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/978.html (407 words)

	Sidonie Goossens; harpist and last of a distinguished musical family; 105 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Sidonie Goossens; harpist and last of a distinguished musical family; 105
		Goossens died in her sleep Dec. 15 at her home in Reigate, a southern suburb of London, her family said.
		Sidonie Goossens, a harpist and the last survivor of a musically distinguished family of brothers and sisters, has died.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041224/news_1m24goossens.html (227 words)

	Goosens:
		SIDONIE SCOTT: He was purportedly bringing back a suitcase full of 1,000 pornographic images and masks and other things to do with fl magic cult.
		SIDONIE SCOTT: When I was working in a record shop years later and a gentleman asked to see what was in the catalogue in the way of recordings of the 'Messiah', one of the recordings was my father's.
		Plenty of people, of course, agree with Sidonie that there would certainly be no Sydney Opera House without her father, which is a bit more significant than looking at a few strange 1950s occult drawings, I would have thought.
	www.abc.net.au /gnt/history/Transcripts/s1086081.htm (859 words)

	Sidonie Goossens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sidonie Goossens, harpist, teacher, friend to many, mentor, charming little old woman
		Sidonie Goossens, founder member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra played for Toscanini and Schoenberg
		Britain's most acclaimed harpist, Sidonie Goossens, has died at her home in Surrey aged 105.
	www.harpa.com /harpahom000z3l5h4x9r7/034-3.1.05/goossens.htm (163 words)

	The Goossens Family: Classical CD Reviews- November 2000 Music on the Web(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		True though the statement is, a better description of the disc is the one on the rear insert " The Art of Leon Goossens" as he is featured on each piece and dominates the CD with his two sisters, Sidonie and Marie in minor roles.
		On top of this soundest of bases was Goossen's own innate artistry and feel for the music along with his very distinctive and beautifully produced tone that seemed to be his almost as a birthright.
		The contribution by the harp playing sisters, Marie and Sidonie came in a charming Serenade by Michael Krein and the simply titled Melody by Morgan Nicholas in which the sinuous oboe line is et against the minimal harp support.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2000/nov00/goosens.htm (555 words)

	Sidonie Goossens obituary - Times Online
		With the young BBC Symphony Orchestra Sidonie Goossens played not only for Boult, who became a close friend, but for such guests as Toscanini, Weingartner, Koussevitsky, Mengelberg, Walter and Schoenberg.
		At 102, she appeared to those who visited her (and they included a loyal neighbour, the actor, John Bird) to be serene, humorous, generous and as beautiful as ever — a modest paragon, respected and loved by all who had the privilege of knowing her.
		Sidonie Goossens, OBE, harpist, was born on October 1899.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/comment/obituaries/article402930.ece (1259 words)

	Sidonie Goossens has died. - Indymedia Ireland
		Sidonie was born in 1899 and joined the BBC in 1927.
		Sidonie Goossens enjoyed many enlightening conversations with the Russian emigré composer/conductor, Igor Stravinsky who after exile in France finally settled in Hollywood.
		Stravinsky was a great composer who is often remembered for the "rites of spring" rather than "dumbarton oaks".
	www.indymedia.ie /article/67963?fontsizeinc=2 (460 words)

	Sidonie Goossens \| Art & Architecture \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		Many composers wrote for her, including William Alwyn, Arnold Bax, Lord Berners, Bernard van Dieren, Cyril Scott and her brother Eugene.
		Friends flew in from all over the world; among them, Dame Joan Sutherland from Australia.
		In 1991, both Marie and Norman died; Sidonie and he had no children.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /news/obituary/0,12723,1374577,00.html?gusrc=rss (1100 words)

	Other Men's Flowers: Musical Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The last of the Goossens family has died at the age of 105: Sidonie Goossens was a harpist of world renown for more than half a century.
		It is absolutely not true that he gave rise to the phrase ….wouldn’t say oboe to a Goossens.
		She was last scene waltzing slowly across the plains outside Capetown before she herself was struck by a 4' spear.
	omf.blogspot.com /2004/12/musical-family.html (410 words)

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