Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 13:12:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rick Rosendall <rick.rosendall@gmcw.org>
Subject: Gay chorus director killed on TWA Flight 800

I am forwarding this message from the gay chorus listserve for your
consideration as a news item.  David Hogan, music director of Le Choeur
International Gai de Paris (CIGAP), and baritone Jean-Paul Galland, were
aboard TWA flight 800 on their way home to Paris from GALA Choruses Festival
V in Tampa, Florida, where CIGAP had performed along with about 100 other
choruses from around the world during the week of July 6 to July 13.

I do not have any information about this incident other than the message
below from CIGAP President Clark Taylor.  I would mention, however, that
CIGAP takes its name from the fact that, while the majority of its members
are French, it has members from many nations (Mr. Hogan, for example, was
from the United States).

You may wish to call Ken Cole, Executive Director of the Gay and Lesbian
Association of Choruses, at GALA Choruses headquarters in Washington, DC, at
(202)467-5830, for comment.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Regards,
Rick Rosendall
Public Relations Director
Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC


>Date: 	Fri, 19 Jul 1996 02:55:35 -0400
>From: Clark Taylor <100614.1041@CompuServe.COM>
>To: CHORUS <Chorus@physics.utoronto.ca>
>Subject: CHORUS: CIGAP Tragedy
>Sender: owner-chorus@physics.utoronto.ca
>
>To The Brothers and Sisters of GALA:
>
>It is with extreme sadness that I must confirm the news that David Hogan,
>Musical Director of CIGAP (Le Choeur Int'l Gai de Paris), and Jean-Paul
Galland,
>barytone, were killed yesterday in the explosion of TWA flight 800 en route
from
>JFK to Charles de Gaulle Airport.
>
>David had started less than one year ago by stepping in when our former musical
>director abruptly resigned less than three weeks before auditions.  In the
>interval he had started to whip the guys into shape both vocally and chorally.
>As well he had provided CIGAP with a series of excellent arrangements of music
>from the 16th through 19th centuries.  It seemed to me that his life was coming
>together as he had also met Christian Dumarty who had auditioned for the
chorus;
>they had started dating at the end of last year and had set up home by the end
>of the Spring.  Professionally he was in demand as a composer and had been
>working with Colline Sereau (the author of the original french "Three Men and a
>Baby"); he had just finished (I think) scoring and recording her most recent
>movie.  In addition to Christian he leaves behind his family somewhere in
>southeast US and an ex-wife and daughter in the San Francisco area.
Christian's
>address is: Lycee Georges Dumezil, Route d'Ivry, 27200 Vernon FRANCE.
>
>Less is known to me of Jean-Paul other than he also was passionate about music
>and had been a member of our Music Committee and had helped secure a "solfege"
>teacher for interested CIGAP members to take a course in music theory
outside of
>normal chorus rehearsals.
>
>David had also been tenor soloist with the American Cathedral (Episcopal) here
>and plans have started to be formulated to have a memorial service in the form
>of a Evensong service probably at the end of September with the Cathedral
chorus
>performing some of his compositions and CIGAP participating.
>
>The men of CIGAP thank you for your compassion and for being there for them in
>this moment of profound sadness.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Clark Taylor
>President