Van Rooyen was supposed to play at a benefit concert for the Bach School in Soest tonight. That concert will go ahead at the insistence of Van Rooyen’s management, says the chairman of the Bach School, Henk van Esch. “Our first reaction was, let’s just call it off, but that was out of the question, they said.” Pianist Harrie Herfst now takes over.
Composer and pianist Laurens van Rooyen (88) died suddenly
