The small chamber orchestra was playing in front of a community full of the conductor’s family, friends and associates – whose lives were cut short after an alleged beating and run in the city. “Ever since they took him away from us, I’ve been trying to find ways to be close to him again,” Brot’s son David said on Sunday. “To wear his clothes, to hang out in his office, to make terrible jokes. Music helps a lot. Old memories, photos, videos and inner jokes are also good. It’s great to feel his presence in a room. “

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On Tuesday, police said they received a report of a vehicle driving on the wrong side of the road on Mount Hamilton shortly after 10 a.m. Twenty minutes later, according to police, a pedestrian was hit. Broot, 78, was rushed to hospital after the crash near Park Avenue South on Markland Street, just south of downtown. A little while later, his death was confirmed. Brot’s death provoked reactions throughout the Canadian classical music community, especially in his hometown of Hamilton, where Mayor Fred Eisenberger described him as a “man of the people.” “Boris leaves a legacy of music of superiority and humanity that is unparalleled and is a gap in Hamilton that will be very, very difficult to fill,” Eisenberger told Sunday Service. “Such a tragic loss that so many people felt.” Brott served as conductor and artistic director of the Orchester classique de Montréal (OCM), which confirmed his death in a statement issued after the crash. In one eulogy, OCM Executive Director Taras Kulish spoke of Brott’s passion for the arts and his efforts to bring classical music back to Hamilton City through the Brott Music Festival. “Boris never stopped innovating and creating. He was really a kid at heart with an endless source of energy,” Kulish said. Tributes continued to fall after the untimely death of the beloved conductor, including those from the Royal Conservatory, former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, NDP leader Andrea Horwath, actor Eugene Levy and the Hamilton-based Arkells band. An officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Order of Ontario, most recently, Broth hosted Internet concerts amid the COVID-19 pandemic, when public health restrictions closed all places where one could enjoy classical music. The Ukrainian-Canadian was also planning a beneficial concert for those in Ukraine suffering from the Russian invasion.

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An investigation into Tuesday’s crash is under way and the Ontario Special Investigation Unit (SIU) has been called in after three police officers and a suspect were injured in their arrest. Police say the driver fled after the collision, but was arrested shortly afterwards. Police with Hamilton Police followed the vehicle and tried to stop it, according to the SIU. The suspicious vehicle then collided with several police vehicles, the SIU reported.

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The small chamber orchestra was playing in front of a community full of the conductor’s family, friends and associates – whose lives were cut short after an alleged beating and run in the city.
“Ever since they took him away from us, I’ve been trying to find ways to be close to him again,” Brot’s son David said on Sunday.  “To wear his clothes, to hang out in his office, to make terrible jokes.  Music helps a lot.  Old memories, photos, videos and inner jokes are also good.  It’s great to feel his presence in a room.
On Tuesday, police said they received a report of a vehicle driving on the wrong side of the road on Mount Hamilton shortly after 10 a.m.  Twenty minutes later, according to police, a pedestrian was hit.
Broot, 78, was rushed to hospital after the crash near Park Avenue South on Markland Street, just south of downtown.  A little while later, his death was confirmed.
Brot’s death provoked reactions throughout the Canadian classical music community, especially in his hometown of Hamilton, where Mayor Fred Eisenberger described him as a “man of the people.”
“Boris leaves a legacy of music of superiority and humanity that is unparalleled and is a gap in Hamilton that will be very, very difficult to fill,” Eisenberger told Sunday Service.
“Such a tragic loss that so many people felt.”
Brott served as conductor and artistic director of the Orchester classique de Montréal (OCM), which confirmed his death in a statement issued after the crash.
In one eulogy, OCM Executive Director Taras Kulish spoke of Brott’s passion for the arts and his efforts to bring classical music back to Hamilton City through the Brott Music Festival.
“Boris never stopped innovating and creating. He was really a kid at heart with an endless source of energy,” Kulish said.
Tributes continued to fall after the untimely death of the beloved conductor, including those from the Royal Conservatory, former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, NDP leader Andrea Horwath, actor Eugene Levy and the Hamilton-based Arkells band.
An officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Order of Ontario, most recently, Broth hosted Internet concerts amid the COVID-19 pandemic, when public health restrictions closed all places where one could enjoy classical music.
The Ukrainian-Canadian was also planning a beneficial concert for those in Ukraine suffering from the Russian invasion.


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An investigation into Tuesday’s crash is under way and the Ontario Special Investigation Unit (SIU) has been called in after three police officers and a suspect were injured in their arrest.
Police say the driver fled after the collision, but was arrested shortly afterwards.
Police with Hamilton Police followed the vehicle and tried to stop it, according to the SIU.  The suspicious vehicle then collided with several police vehicles, the SIU reported.