Tenor Peter Hofman dies at age 66

German tenor Peter Hofmann, who became famous for his performances of Richard Wagner operas, died Tuesday, 29 November 2010. He died at a hospital in Wunsiedel in Bavaria. The mass-circulation newspaper Bild also reported Hofmann's death after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. Hofmann made his name performing at the annual Bayreuth festival celebrating the music of Richard Wagner. He toured stages across the world, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

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Fight for arts and music in public schools

Today in the United States of America a musical prodigy was born. A gifted composer or performer. His latent talents, however, were never discovered because there were no arts or music education programs in his school. Taunted by his peers in the 2020's because he could not express himself he tried and became addicted to recreational drugs. In the 2030's his dependency led to several taxpayer supported imprisonments and failed state rehabilitation programs. He died unknown and unrecognized.

During the 1960's and 1970's the majority of public schools in the United States had regular music and art programs as part of their curriculum. Art teachers and music teachers were employed by the schools and children as young as Kindergarten received instruction in both music and art....MORE