‘Heaviest of hearts’ in Hamilton as ‘musical genius’ Boris Brott confirmed dead in hit and run
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Heartfelt messages from Hamiltonians poured forth shortly after the Brott Music Festival confirmed that Brott was the 78-year-old man who succumbed to injuries in hospital after being hit in the Durand neighbourhood shortly after 10 a.m. on April 5. Brott, a member of the Order of Canada who conducted at Carnegie Hall and in front Pope John Paul II in Vatican City, was founder and artistic director of the National Academy Orchestra of Canada and the Brott Music Festival in Hamilton. He and his author-attorney wife Ardyth Webster Brott resided in the city.