How sad indeed. What a great loss for the world of music.
Fans of Mr Bernard's work might want to check out this site:
http://www.joesgrille.com/store/p-6964.html
Greg and I have a Hammer music CD which we like to play around Halloween as a backdrop for when the kids come around for candy. It's wonderful, moving, errie, passionate....
I was very interested in reading Sylvain's post about his personal interaction with this man. He truly sounded lovely.
Carmen